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19 Cards in this Set
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The recognized violation of cultural norms
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Deviance
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The violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law
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Crime
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Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior
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Social control
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The organizations--police, courts, and prison officials--that respond to alleged violations of the law
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Criminal justice system
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-Focus on abnormality
-Explain human behavior as the result of biological instincts |
Biological theories of deviance
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-Focus on individual abnormality
-See deviance as the result of "unsuccessful socialization" |
Psychological theories of deviance
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-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 social power and who does not |
Sociological theories of deviance
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The idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions
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Labeling theory
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A powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity
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Stigma
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The transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition
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Medicalization of deviance
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crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations
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White-collar crime
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The illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf
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Corporate crime
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A business supplying illegal goods or services
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Organized crime
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A criminal act against a person or a person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias
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Hate crime
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Crimes that direct violence or threat of violence against others
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Crimes against the person
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Crimes that involve theft of money or property belonging to others
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Crime against property
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Violations of law in which there are no obvious victims
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Victimless crimes
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Rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through imprisonment or permanently by execution
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Societal protection
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Later offenses by people previously convicted of crimes
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Criminal recidivism
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