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16 Cards in this Set
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anomie
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a social condition in which people find it difficult to guide their behavior by norms they experience as weak, unclear, and conflicting.
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capital punishment
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the application of the death penalty for capital crime
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crime
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an act prohibited by law
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criminal justice system
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the reactive agencies of the state that include the police courts, and prisons
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deviance
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behavior that a considerable number of people in society view as reprehensible and beyond the limits of tolerance
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differential association
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the notion that the earlier, the more frequent, the more intense, and the longer to duration of the contacts people have in deviant settings, the greater the probability that they too, will become deviant
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high-technology crime
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crime committed through the use of advances electronic media
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index crimes
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crimes reported by the FBI in its uniform Crime Reports. These offenses consist of four major categories of violent crime against people-murder, rape, robbery, and assault- and four categories of crime against property-burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson
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internalization
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the process by which individuals incorporate within their personalities the standard of behavior prevalent within the larger society
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organized crime
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large-scale bureaucratic organizations that provide illegal goods and services in public demand.
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primary deviance
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behavior that violates social norms but usually unnoticed by the agents of social control
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recidivism
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relapse into criminal behavior
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secondary deviance
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deviance that individuals adopt in response to the reactions of other individuals
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social control
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methods and strategies that regulate behavior within society
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victimless crime
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an offense in which no one involved is considered a victim
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white-collar crime
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crime committed by relatively affluent persons, often in the course of business activities.
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