Crime and Deviance
This theory states that deviance is a socially constructred process in which social control agencies designate certain people as deviant.
Labeling theory
The trend in which women are disproportionately represented among individuals of poverty.
The femininization of poverty
A set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another.
Language
Overgeneralizations about appearance, behavior, or other characteristics of members of particular categories.
Stereotypes
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These offenses are comprised of illegal activities committed by people in the course of their employment or financial affairs.
White collar crimes
The movement of individuals or groups from one level of stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Classical music, opera, ballet, live theater and other activities usually patronized by elite audiences.
High culture
A negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of specific racial, ethnic, or other groups.
Prejudice
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Any behavior, belief, or conidtion that violates significant social norms in the society or groups in which it occurs.
Deviance
The hierarchcial arrangement of large social groups based on their control of basic resources.
Social stratification
The mental acceptance of conviction that certain things are true or real.
beliefs
The day-to-day practices of organizations and institutions that have a harmful effect on members of subordinate groups.
Institutional Racism
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Crimes involving a willing exchange of illegal goods or services among adults.
Victimless crimes
The extent to which individuals have acces to important societal resources such as food, clothing, shelter, education and healthcare.
Theory of life chances
The practice of judging all other cultures by one's own culture.
Ethnocentrism
A collection of people disinguished, by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics.
Ethnic group
Durham
Violations of laws or the commission of a status offenses committed by young people, usually under the age of 18.
Juvenile delinquency
The economic gain derived from wages, salaries and income transfers (governmental aid) and ownership of propery.
Income
Established rules of behavior or standards of conduct.
Norms
A category of people who have been singled out as either inferior or superior often based on subjective basis of physical characteristics.
Race
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Wilmington, NC