Any action that contravenes the laws established by a political authority and backed by state power.
What is Crime
100
The number of prisoners held in U.S. federal, state and county facilities
What is 2.3 Million People
100
86.4% of the people in jail
What are Men
100
Argument that deviance is deliberately chosen and often political in nature
What is The Conflict Theory
100
Exceeding the speed limit and underage drinking are considered to be
What are Acts of Crime
200
Modes of action that do not conform to the norms or values held by most members of a group or society
What is Deviance
200
9 out of every 10 prisoners are this
What is an ethnic or racial minority
200
Women rarely engage in these types of crimes
What are Violent Crimes
200
A theory that views crimes as the outcome of an imbalance between impulses toward criminal activity and controld that deter it
What is The Control Theory
200
Devients help us understand what is considered to be
What is Right and Wrong
300
Criminal activities carried out by those in white-collar or professional jobs
What are White Collar Crimes
300
The U.S. contains this percentage of the worlds prisoners
What is 25%
300
34% of the people arrested for crime were under the age of
What is 21
300
An approach to the study of deviance that suggest that people become "deviant" because certain labels are attached to their behavior by political authorities and others
What is The Labeling Theory
300
The victims of these crimes often dont even realize they have been attacked
What are Corporate Crimes
400
A mode of reward or punishment that reinforces socially expected forms of behavior
What are Sanctions
400
For every 100,000 people in the U.S. there are how many prisoners
What is 760 people
400
Theft, burglary, assult and rape are the most common crimes among
What are Young Working Class Males
400
Proposed by Edwin H. Sutherland, according to whom criminal behavior is learned through association with others who regularly engage in crime
What is The Differential Association Theory
400
Sociologist tend to focus on behaviors that are both