Criminal Justice System
The organizations: police, courts, and prison officials that respond to alleged violations of the law...
What is the criminal justice system?
People labeled as deviant...
What are people who threaten the wealthy?
A powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person’s self-concept and social identity...
What is “stigma”?
The violation of criminal laws enacted by a locality, a state, or the federal government...
What is crime?
A failure to conform to the norms of society..
What is deviance?
A policy of releasing inmates from prison to serve the remainder of their sentences in the local community under the supervision of an officer
What is parole?
One paradigm is used most often to define why there is a difference between the amount of deviance between classes...
What is social-conflict theory?
Two types of deviance..
What is primary and secondary deviance?
One of the two major types of crime that make up the FBI crime index...
What are
1) Crimes against the person (violent crimes)
2)Crimes against property (property crimes)
Reason deviance most common among the lower class...
What is they have the least opportunity to attain conventional success?
A program for reforming the offender to prevent later offenses
What is rehabilitation?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
A classification of crime that leads to a company polluting the environment...
What is a corporate crime?
Whether we define deviance as a moral or a medical issue it has _____ main consequences.
What is 3?
Ages where crime rates increase sharply...
What is adolescence, and late teens?
Enforced the point over a century ago that deviance is a necessary part of social organization
Who is Emile Durkheim?
A policy permitting a convicted offender to remain in the community under conditions imposed by a court
What is probation?
This protection of law includes the right to refuse to testify against oneself, the right to confront all accusers, freedom from being tried twice for the same crime, and freedom from being “deprived of life, liberty, or property”
What is due process of law?
The theory with the following different types of social control : Attachment, Opportunity, Involvement, Belief
What is Hirschi’s Control Theory?
Two elements that compose all crimes
What is the act and criminal intent?
Using unconventional means (street crime) rather than conventional means (hard work at a “straight” job) to achieve a culturally approved goal (wealth)...
What is deviance innovation?
Retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and societal protection
What are the four justifications for punishment?
The form of justice that our teacher is a strong advocate for and one of the quickest growing criminal reform ideologies in the US...
What is Restorative/Rehabilitative Justice?
The transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition...
What is the medicalization of deviance?
The exact number of murders in the U.S. in 2013...
What is 14,196?
Encouraging social change, affirming cultural values and norms, and clarifying moral boundaries
What is a way that shows how deviance is essential in a society?