Essay Questions
- What are the potential consequences of continuing to keep the felony question on a job application?
- Is drug use a victimless crime, why or why not?
- Is prostitution a victimless crime, why or why not?
- Do you agree with Gary Marx’s ironies of social control? Why or why not?
- Is the social constructionist perspective a valid theoretical construct, or does is reduce deviance to pure relativity?
- Relate the pathological, learning, or classical theoretical paradigms to the societal reaction perspective. How does it fit the issues associated with the societal reaction perspective?
- Are the current examples for the collective responses of deviants to deviant labeling?
- Discuss one of the critiques of the societal reaction perspective using a current example.