What is Deviance
.The shared expectations that make behavior predictable and allow social life to function smoothly.
What are norms?
This theory says deviance is learned from the people we hang out with.
What is differential association theory?
Someone who accepts society's goals and follows approved means to achieve them.
What is a conformist?
These types of crimes include theft and burglary by people in lower social classes who are just trying to survive.
What are street crimes?
This is data collected by the FBI from police departments across the U.S. to track reported crimes.
What is the Uniform Crime Report?
A concept introduced by Erving Goffman describing a blemish on one’s identity.
What is stigma?
This theory posits that strong social bonds and commitments keep people from acting on deviant impulses.
What is social control theory?
The response to strain that rejects both cultural goals and the means to achieve them, replacing them with new ones.
What is rebellion?
These crimes include non-violent offenses like embezzlement committed by high-status individuals in their jobs.
What is white-collar crime?
This national survey that collects information about people’s experiences as victims of crime.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey?
A sociology technique that involves deliberately violating unwritten social rules or norms to observe people's reactions and reveal the underlying structure of social expectations
What are breaching experiments?
The concept that once someone's behavior is identified as deviant, they may internalize that status and continue the behavior.
What is labeling theory?
Turning to deviant means such as stealing to achieve financial goals when legitimate paths to success are blocked.
What is an innovation or an innovator?
These offenses are committed by a company or people acting on its behalf, such as falsifying reports or price-fixing.
What is corporate crime?
The decade in which the United States experienced the “Great Crime Decline.”
What are the 1990s.
He coined the idea that it’s not the act itself, but the reaction to it, that makes something deviant.
Who is Howard Becker?
Denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of the victim, and appeal to higher loyalties are all examples of this.
What are techniques of neutralization?
Someone who gives up on success and drops out of society, such as a chronic drug user or recluse
What is a retreatist?
A theory that views the law as a tool used by those in power to control and oppress others.
What is conflict theory?
Research shows that this commonly used method in the United States has little or no effect on lowering crime rates today.
What is incarceration?