Types of Crime
A criminal offense that is motivated in whole or part by bias against a race, religion, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.
What is a hate crime?
True or False: Deviance only includes breaking official laws or rules.
False
The use of race alone as a criterion for deciding whether to stop and detain someone on suspicion of having committed a crime.
What is racial profiling?
The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government or the civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives.
What is terrorism?
Deviance that includes behavior that violates customary norms?
What is informal deviance?
Those who regulate and administer the response to deviance, such as police and mental health workers.
What are social control agents?
Wrongdoing that occurs within the context of a formal organization or bureaucracy that is actually sanctioned by the norms and operating principles of the bureaucracy.
What is corporate crime?
True or False: Deviance depends on people's reactions to specific behaviors
True
Interaction theory that interprets the responses of others as the most significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is both created and sustained.
What is labeling theory?
Violent or non-violent crimes directed against people
What is personal crime?
If a person has a master status in being an alcoholic, what does this mean about their identity?
Overrides other parts of their identity
A theory that traces the origins of deviance to the tensions caused by the gap between cultural goals and the means people have available to achieve those goals.
What is structural strain theory?