The "broken-window theory" cited in Duran's study refers to
a. reported mistreatment by police, regardless of delinquent incidents or not.
b. shared belief that police perceive all young Black and Latino males as criminals.
c. focus of law enforcement efforts on minor offenses to prevent social and physical disorder and thus reduce the level of overall crime.
d. overall positive views about the police and their treatment of women in their neighborhoods.
C
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a. the relations among positions b. the requirements of roles c. the relations among norms in social structures d. b and c above e. none of the above
Viewing impoverished people as interacting in situations where they reproduce conditions of their own poverty is most closely associated with ______.
A. functionalist theory B. symbolic interactionism C. conflict theory D. the act of personal responsibility and work opportunity
According to Immanuel Wallerstein, which geographical area dominates the global economy and exploits other places?
A. core B. semiperiphery C. periphery D. socialist world
When someone asks you to explain your own or someone else’s behavior they are asking for you to produce a/an ______.
A. moral career B. spoiled identity C. account D. explanation of normalcy