Question 461 pts

Corporate crime is arguably a more serious type of crime than street crime, and yet white-collar criminals are treated relatively leniently. Fines, when they are imposed, are typically absorbed as a cost of doing business and passed on to consumers, and many crimes, from investment fraud to insider trading and price fixing, are simply not prosecuted. This theoretical perspective would argue that this is because white-collar crime is committed by elites who are able to use their power and financial resources to evade punishment

Group of answer choices

Structural Functionalism

Critical

Symbolic Interactionism

a) and b) only

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Question 471 pts

In Winnipeg, Indigenous people make up 10.6% of the population but account for what percentage of victims of fatal police shootings?

Group of answer choices

38.9%

49%

57.2%

64.3%

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Question 481 pts

As described by Jaime Black, the dresses in the REDress project symbolize the violence experienced by women, but also what else?

Group of answer choices

The power and presence of Indigenous women

The fact that the missing and murdered women is a national crisis

It is symbolic of the anger resulting from decades of police apathy and inaction

It is symbolic of one high profile case

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Question 491 pts

A conclusion of the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) is that the sheer number of missing or murdered women and girls amounts to an epidemic of what?

Group of answer choices

Genocide

Systemic discrimination

Racial profiling

Systemic racism

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Question 501 pts

Sociologist Edwin Lemert expanded on the concepts of labelling theory, identifying two types of deviance that affect identity formation: Primary deviance is a violation of norms that does not result in any long-term effects on the individuals self-image or interactions with other, whereas secondary deviance occurs when a persons self-concept and behaviour begin to change after his or her actions are labelled as deviant by members of society

Group of answer choices

True

False