Match Merton's Categories to the Type of Criminality

question 71

Short Answer

Match Merton's categories to the type of criminality.
A)Political crime
B)Drug use and vagrancy
C)Law-abiding behavior
D)Property and white-collar crime
E)Repetitive and mundane lifestyle
-Innovator

• A)Political crime
• B)Drug use and vagrancy
• C)Law-abiding behavior
• D)Property and white-collar crime
• E)Repetitive and mundane lifestyle
• -Innovator

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Definitions:

Actor-Observer Effect

A psychological tendency to attribute one’s own actions to external factors while attributing others’ actions to their internal characteristics.

Self-Serving Bias

The common human tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Personal Experience

An individual’s direct observation or participation in events, forming the basis for knowledge, attitudes, or beliefs.

Inherited

The transfer of physical, genetic, or characteristic traits from parents to offspring through genes.