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37 Cards in this Set
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What is deviance
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behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms or not sanctioned
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Why does deviance exist?
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Functionalism- to show what behavior is acceptable.
Conflict Theory- so the powerful can remain in power Symbolic Interaction- so people can be labeled and the norms can be established |
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Anomie in deviance
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Lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.
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Robert Merton's Strain theory
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deviance comes from the tension between cultural goals and the means people have to achieve the goals
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Social Control theory
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deviance occurs when a persons attachment to social bonds weakens
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Problems with Functionalist view of deviance?
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Does not explain how social norms of deviance are established
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Elite deviance
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wrongdoing of wealthy powerful individuals and organizations or white collar crimes
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Social Control (conflict theory)
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is the process by which groups are brought into conformity with dominate social expectations
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Social control agents
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Police and mental health workers who regulate the response to deviance
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Symbolic interaction (Differential association theory)
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interprets deviance and crime as behavior one learns through interaction with others
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Labeling theory
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responses of others are the most significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is both created and sustained
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Labeling
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Assignment of a deviant identity to a person by others including institutions
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Labeling-Primary deviance
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When you break a rule or law
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Labeling-Secondary
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Deviant behavior results from being labeled deviant even if not previously deviant
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Labeling-Tertiary
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Accept that they are deviant but reject the stigma or label
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Non-human Agent
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With an alcoholic alcohol is the non human agent but being an alcoholic is the stigma
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Stigma
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an attribute that is socially devalued and discredited
Becomes the main focus and master status |
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Medicalization
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Medical deviance is less stigmatized
interpret deviance as the result of individual sickness or pathology |
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Criminal Justice System
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the social institution responsible for preventing crime, assessment of violations, and the punishment of violations
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Police
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responsible for detecting and investigation the violation of law
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Courts
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responsible for determining the guilt or innocence of offenders
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Penal System
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responsible for the punishment of violators
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Precedence
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The idea that prior cases should apply to future grievances
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Clerical law
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based on religion
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Code of Hammurabi
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An eye for and eye
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Crime
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violation of a set of rules that are well known and written known as laws
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Roman law
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12 tables people of different income at differently with enforcement of law pros
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English Common law
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sheriff and precedence
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Measurement of Crime
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Uniform crime report-collected by FBI
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National Crime Victimization Survey
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Random survey population
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Types of Crime
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Personal Crime- assault,murder, kidnapping
Property Crimes- theft vandalism Traffic Crime-speeding, failure to stop Victimless Crimes- not another person gambling Hate crimes- vandalism and motivated by race and sex |
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Organized crime
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unify s groups of people like in a bureaucracy
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SIDS versus death
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Income effects punishment
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Terrorism needs:
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1. Attacking of non acceptable targets
2. Violating the rules of war 3. Carried out by orgs and groups not individual 4. Done with intention of change |
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Terrorism
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the use of unconventional strategies involving some form of violence by groups in submissive power and to obtain and enforce power
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Goals of terrorism
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Revolutionary, Nationalist, Vigilantism
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Sources of terrorism
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1. places of poverty
2. go outside rules 3. unbeatable with accepting rules 4. prep for conflict |
