The Best-Selling Text, the Rich Get Richer and the Poor

question 28

Multiple Choice

The best-selling text, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, contends that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish. What definition of crime is the book most likely based on?

• A)legal
• B)social norm
• C)social constructionist
• D)social mores

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Definitions:

Authority

A way of knowing based on knowledge from a credible or respected source of information.

Intuition

Refers to arriving at an answer without quite knowing how one arrived there; a hunch or “gut instinct.”

Nomothetic

A research approach with an emphasis on measurement with a view to making generalizations about human behavior.

Idiographic

A research approach with an emphasis on understanding the subjectivity and individuality of human communication, rather than universal laws of human behavior.