Author Question: Wilson and Herrnstein state that people become deviant because: a. their families have failed to ... (Read 100 times)

jasdeep_brar · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

Wilson and Herrnstein state that people become deviant because:

a. their families have failed to socialize them properly.
b. failing to get jobs, they have nowhere else to turn in order to get by.
c. they have become part of a deviant subculture.
d. they feel the rewards of crime outweigh the prospects of punishment.
e. they are genetically pre-programmed for criminal activity.

Question 2

For many in the United States, it seems logical and natural to place Barack Obama in the racial category of black, even in the face of clear evidence that he is of mixed biological heritage. This is an example of

a. racial awareness.
b. racial common sense.
c. selective forgetting.
d. racism.