Vocab Terms #1
4 Types of Social Controls and more
3 social foundations of deviance and more
Types of Crime and More
Justifications for Punishment and more
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This is the term which expresses the violation of cultural rules and behaviors for members of society.
What is Deviance?
100
The stronger your attachment to: Family, Peer groups, and School, the less deviant you will be.
What is Attachment?
100
Like women who want to work or the use of violence as payback to honor your family.
What is relative and related to cultural norms?
100
These are social mechanisms that are intended to make people conform to important social norms. They can be informal or formal.
What is Social Control?
100
Act & Intent.
What is two elements of Crime?
200
This is the violation of norms formally enacted into criminal law.
What is Crime?
200
The more committed you are to legitimate opportunity in your future, the less deviant you will behave.The less confident in your future, the more deviant you will behave.
What is Commitment?
200
Deviance is not the act but the reaction; like stealing pens and papers from the office or dying your hair an unnatural color.
What is Others need to define you as deviant?
200
Assault, battery, rape, murder are example of this ______ type of crime.
What is Crime Against a Person?
200
Police:This is the element that is the point of contact between the public and criminal justice system. The highest concentrations are found in areas with high income disparities between rich and poor because this often promotes criminal violence. Courts:Part of the criminal justice system, place where suspects innocence or guilt is determined. It is an adversarial situation between a defendant and the state.
What is Two Elements of the Criminal Justice System?
300
The violation of legal standards that apply to the young.
What is Juvenile Delinquency?
300
The more you are involved in: Jobs, School, and Hobbies the less deviant behavior you will exhibit. The more you “hang out”, the more deviant behavior you will exhibit.
What is Involvement?
300
Owners close a factory versus Vandalism that closes a factory.
What is It involves social power?
300
Vandalism, arson, theft are examples of this type of crime, _________.
What is a Crime Against Property?
300
Oldest justification of punishment; remains today. An offender should suffer comparable to the crime.
What is Retribution?
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Idea which came out in the 1960's. Claimed boys who managed to stay out of trouble had a Strong conscious and Positive self concept/self-image. It served as an internal buffer which protects people against violation of social and legal norms.
What is Containment Theory?
400
The more you believe in conventional morality and respect authority, the less deviant behavior you will exhibit. Weak beliefs increase temptation to deviant behavior. Self esteem affects deviance in terms of the lower the self-esteem the high probability you will demonstrate deviant behavior.
What is Belief?
400
This is defined by the poor who steal from the rich threatening private property. Those who won’t or can’t work. Those who resist authority.
What is Deviance and Capitalism?
400
Suicide, drugs, prostitution, are example of this type of crime gambling
What is a Victimless Crime?
400
A) Attempts to discourage criminality through punishment. It uses risk-reward argument and lets one person be an example to many. B) Render the offender incapable of further offenses either temporarily by incarceration or permanently by execution.
What is Deterrence & Social Protection?
500
This is an idea (or assumption) that deviance and conformity result from the response of others. It explains that behavior understood in one situation may be defined differently in another.
What is Labeling Theory?
500
This is a powerful negative social label that radically changes a person’s social identity and self concept.
What is Stigma?
500
This involves issues like: False advertising, the marketing of unsafe products, Embezzlement, and Bribery. Results are often not as severe because high corporate officials are tied to high political or judicial officials.
What is White collar crime?
500
90% of criminal cases are resolved through this legal negotiation. The prosecution reduces a defendants charge in exchange for a guilty plea. Part of the adversarial process to determine a suspects guilt or innocence; usually worked out by attorneys.
What is a Plea Bargain?
500
Based on the belief in reforming the offender to preclude subsequent offenses. It emphasizes constructive improvement. Deviance and crime are often the result of unfavorable social environment.
What is Rehabilitation?
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