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8 Cards in this Set
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Deviance
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The recognized violation of cultural norms
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Crime |
violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law |
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Social control
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Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts or behaviors
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Criminal Justice System
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The organizations-police, courts, and prison officials-that respond to alleged violations of the law.
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Biological theories
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Focus on individual abnormality and explain human behavior as the result of biological instincts
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Psychological theories
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focus on individual abnormality and see deviance as the result of "unsuccessful socialization."
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sociological theory
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View all behavior-deviance as well as conformity-as products of society. Sociologists point out that :
-what is deviant varies from place to place according to cultural norms -behavior and individuals become deviant as others define them that way -what and who a society defines as deviant reflect who has and does not have social power |
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Labeling theory
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Claims that deviance depends less on what someone does than on how others react to that behavior.
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