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26 Cards in this Set
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attachment |
a person's shared interest with others |
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commitment |
the amount of energy and effort put into activities with others |
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involvement |
the amount of time spent with others in shared activities |
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belief |
a shared value and moral system |
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control ratio |
the amount of control to which a person is subject vs. the amount of control that person exerts over others; predicts the probability one will engage in deviance and the specific form it will take |
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tagging |
the process whereby an individual is negatively defined by agencies of justice |
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moral enterprise |
efforts of an interest group to have its sense of propriety embodied in law |
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primary deviance |
initial deviance undertaken to solve a immediate problem or meet the expectations of one's subcultural group |
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secondary deviance |
deviant behavior that results from official labeling and from association with others who have been so labeled |
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reintegrative shaming |
emphasizes processes by which a deviant is labeled and sanctioned but then brought back into a community of conformity |
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Stigmatic & Reintegrative Shaming |
What are the 2 types of shaming? |
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discrediting information |
information that is inconsistent with the managed impressions being communicated in a given situation |
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total institution |
an institution from which individuals can rarely come and go and in which communal life is intense and circumscribed |
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life course perspective |
Which perspective focuses on dimensions of offending over the life course? |
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What are the 4 parts of the life course perspective? |
1. participation 2. frequency 3. duration 4. stress |
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activation |
the ways that delinquent behaviors are stimulated and the processes by which the continuity, frequency and diversity of delinquency are shaped |
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aggravation |
the existence of a developmental sequence of activities that escalate or increase in seriousness over time |
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desistance |
a reduction in the frequency of offending, variety, or seriousness |
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Moffitt's Dual Taxonomic Theory |
a theory that explains why most antisocial children do not become adult criminals |
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adolescence-limited offenders (AL) |
led into offending by structural disadvantages |
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persistence |
continuity in crime |
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desistance |
the cessation of crime or the termination of a period of involvement in crime |
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unaided desistance |
desistance that has no formal intervention involved |
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aided desistance |
desistance that involves agencies of the justice system |
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What are the 4 components of desistance? |
1. deceleration 2. specialization 3. de-escalation 4. reaching a ceiling |
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resilience |
the psychological ability to successfully cope with severe stress and negative events |
