What is a Life Course Perspective?

What will be an ideal response?


An approach to explaining crime and deviance that investigates developments and turning points in the course of a person’s life.

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A lack of norms or clear social standards is referred to as ____________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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If a person had a medical procedure in the 1940s to alter his or her brain tissue in order to alter their behavior, this would be referred to as:

a. phrenology b. psychometry c. psychosurgery d. physiognomy

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Any law of specific villages and localities that was in effect in medieval England and that was often enforced by canonical courts

A. Common Law B. Special Law C. Tort Law D. Property Law

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Numerous research efforts have supported the core principles of differential association. These generally show a correlation between having deviant parents and friends, holding deviant attitudes, and _____________

a. committing deviant acts b. prison length c. broken homes d. negative marriages

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