White Collar Crime, Emile Durkheim and Deviance, Differential Opportunity Theory, and Labeling Theory
Theory that claims that titles heighten likelihood of conformity to that title
What is Labeling Theory?
The government’s primary source of crime data
What is the Uniform Crime Reports?
The definition of Victimless Crime
What are illegal acts done purposefully with no unwilling victims?
The meaning of deviance
What is behavior that goes against social norms and arouses negative reactions?
The system involved in formal social control in the US
What is legal system?
Crimes committed in due to someone's occupation
What is White Collar Crime?
Age range of people who commit conventional crime
What is <31?
The three main functions of deviance
What are social norm clarification, increased conformity, strengthened bonds, and positive change?
The meaning of social disorganization
What is weakened bonds and social institutions?
The person most related with strain theory
Who is Robert Merton?
Person who claimed it is impossible for deviance to be absent in a society
Who is Emile Durkheim?
The meaning of relativity of deviance
What is deviance depending on circumstance and not the behavior?
Social control theory developer
Who is Travis Hirschi?
The reason sociologist point to for lessened likelihood of females to engage in violence compared to males
What is gender socialization?
How learning theories emphasize deviance is learnt
What is interacting with others who see deviance as a norm
Developed the Differential Opportunity Theory
Who are Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin?
Promotes violent responses to simple issues in some areas
What is a violent subculture?
The two arguments against Victimless Crime Laws
What is they do more harm than good and they state the danger to the public?
Whether all crime is deviance and all deviance is crime
What is most crimes are deviant and not all deviance is crime
What most people arrested for conventional crime are low in
What is income and education?
The theory that tries to explain why the poor choose either of Merton's adaptations
What is Differential Opportunity Theory?
The reason poor boys are theorized to become delinquent by Walter Miller
What is a low-class subculture supporting delinquent-supporting values?
The four types of bonds to conventional social institutions
What is attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief?
What is harshly for minor crimes and more lenient for major crimes?
The majority racial nature of conventional crime
What is interracial?