Michel Foucault studied prisons from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s and found that prison officials used surveillance techniques to maintain social control and were able to use their knowledge as a form of power over inmates. Foucault's study best illustrates __________.Group of answer choiceslabeling theorythe postmodernist perspective on deviancesocial control theorythe functionalist perspective on deviance

According to Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish, eighteenth century prison reformer Jeremy Bentham proposed that criminal justice should be primarily concerned with what?Group of answer choicesIncapacitationDeterrenceRetributionTorture

Which of the following statements is true of the postmodernist perspective on deviance?Group of answer choicesIt posits that social institutions categorize deviants into subgroups and control them through specific patterns of discipline.It is centered on the assumption that deviant behavior is innate and cannot be acquired.It is centered on the assumption that deviant behavior is minimized when people have strong social bonds.It posits that a certain amount of deviance is necessary as it contributes to the smooth functioning of society.

Which theorists are most likely to emphasize that the study of deviance reveals how the powerful exert authority over the powerless by taking away their free will to think and act as they might choose?Group of answer choicesrational choice theoristsfunctionalist theoristssymbolic interactionistspostmodern theorists

Which early criminology theories concluded that criminals were inferior to ‘normal man’?Question 10Select one:Sociological theoriesBiological theoriesEcological theoriesPsychological theories

In Discipline and Punish, What does Michel Foucault claim changed in the latter 18th and early 19th centuries in France?Group of answer choicesBy the early 19th century, physical torture had become commonplace.Nothing changed; offences against the powerful are still met with savage retribution.Public and extravagant torture largely disappeared.The way officials tortured the convicted changed.