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The recognized violation of cultural norms
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Deviance
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Folkways
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the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law
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Crime
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Moraes
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attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior
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Social Control
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Informal - violates folkways
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a formal response by police, courts, and prison officals to alleged violations of the law
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Criminal Justice System
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the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions
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Labeling Theory
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a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity
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Stigma
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the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition
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Medicalization of deviance
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crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations
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White-collar Crime
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the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf
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Corporate Crime
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a business supplying illegal goods or services
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Organized Crime
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a criminal act agianst a person or a peron's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias
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Hate Crime
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crimes that direct violence or the threat of violence against others
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Crimes Against Property (property crimes)
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violations of law in which there are no obvious victims
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Victimless Crimes
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a legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea
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Plea Bargaining
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pleading guilty for a lesser crime to get out of more
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an act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crime
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Retribution
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the attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishment
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Deterrence
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a program for reforming the offender to prevent later offenses
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Rehabilitation
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rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through imprisonment or permently by execution
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Societal Protection
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later offenses committed by people previously convicted of crimes
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Criminal Recidivism
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correctional programs operating within society at large rather than behind prison walls
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Community-based Corrections
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