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21 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, or conflicting
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Capital Punishment
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the application of the death penalty for a 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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any behavior that violates a norm
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Differential Association
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the notion that the earlier, the more frequent, the more intense, and the longer the 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 advanced 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 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 standards 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 goes 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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Social Control
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those that lead us to internalize our societys normative expectations, those that structure our world of social experience, and those that employ various formal and informal social sanctions
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Emile Durkenheim
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theory of anomie
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Robert K. Merton
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built onto the idea of anomie and social cohesion - structural strain, deviance derives from societal stresses
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The Cultural Transmission Theory
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the similarities between the way deviant behavior is acquired and the way in which other behavior is acquired
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Edwin H. Sutherland
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elaborated on the cultural transmission theory within his theory of differential association
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