Social Butterflies
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Crime College
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Career Counseling
100
Normlessness, or a disjunction between institutionalized means and culturally approved goals..
What is anomie?
100
A process that brings about conformity to society’s norms and laws..
What is social control?
100
The perspective on deviant behavior that emphasizes the effects of a socially imposed label on a person who breaks a social rule.
What is the labelling perspective/theory?
100
The theory that individuals who commit violent offenses and property crimes, abuse drugs and alcohol, spend more time on the streets, and associate with deviant peers are themselves exposed to a high risk of victimization..
What is lifestyle theory?
100
This is the age at which criminal activity begins
What is age of onset?
200
A theory of delinquency that focuses on the discrepancy between aspirations and access to both legitimate and illegitimate means to reach those goals..
What is differential opportunity theory?
200
An effort to bring about conformity to the law by agents of the criminal justice system such as the police, the courts, and correctional institutions.
What is formal social control?
200
The theory that crime and delinquency are learned in face-to-face interaction
What is differential association theory?
200
A perspective that sees crime as a function of people’s everyday behavior and stresses motivated offenders, target suitability, and guardianship..
What is routine activities theory?
200
This is the year at which a criminal career ceases.
What is age of termination?
300
An expanded version of anomie theory that focuses on both positive and negative sources of strain.
What is general strain theory?
300
The reactions of individuals and groups that bring about conformity to norms and laws; they include peer and community pressure.
What is informal social control?
300
A reward–risk model that emphasizes offenders’ strategic thinking and the ways that they process information and evaluate opportunities and alternatives.
What is rational choice perspective/theory?
300
The situation that exists when a person who suffers eventual harm from a crime plays a direct role in causing the crime to be perpetrated..
What is victim precipitation?
300
The study of changes in offending within individuals over time.
What is developmental criminology?
400
A mode of adaptation in which people reject cultural goals and develop a new set of goals.
What is rebellion?
400
An approach that uses social-structural factors and social processes to explain delinquency and crime in terms of patterns of change and continuity of behavior between childhood and adulthood.
What is the life-course perspective?
400
The theory that people learn attitudes and techniques conducive to crime in both nonsocial and social situations.
What is social learning theory?
400
The tendency for certain people to be victimized repeatedly..
What is victim proneness?
400
A person who violates the law frequently.
What is a chronic offender?
500
The theory that delinquency is the result of efforts by lower-class adolescents to achieve goals implicit in lower-class focal concerns.
What is lower-class culture theory?
500
A justification used prior to a crime by an offender to render inoperative the social controls that would otherwise check law-violating behavior.
What are techniques of neutralization?
500
The exaggerated belief that men should be aggressive, dominant, and strong.
What is machismo?
500
Factors that increase the chance that a situation will lead to criminal violence or theft..
What are facilitating factors?
500
A kind of offender who engages in robbery, assault, and drug dealing, and sometimes burglary and other thefts.
What is a violent predatory offender?
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