According to Conflict Theorists, Which Is the Defining Difference Between

question 14

Multiple Choice

According to conflict theorists, which is the defining difference between the treatment of street offenders and white-collar offenders?

• A) the violent nature of most street crime
• B) the lifestyle and social class of white-collar offenders
• C) the admiration police officers have for some street offenders
• D) the sex and race of street offenders

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Definitions:

Moral Reasoning

The process by which individuals make decisions about what is right and wrong based on personal, societal, and ethical criteria.

Prejudice

An unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual's membership in a social group.

Discrimination

Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability.

Implicit Association Test

A psychological test designed to measure the strength of a person's automatic associations between mental representations of objects in memory.