Chapter 6 Lesson 2,3+4
a social structure that exists between actors—individuals or organizations.
Social Network
actions and/or behaviors that violate social norms across formally enacted rules as well as informal violations of social norms.
deviance
lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.
anomie
a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status during his occupation.
white collar crime
confinement in a jail or prison
incarceration
the valuing of the benefits and costs of each relationship that determine whether or not we choose to continue a social association.
social exchange
behavior that fails to meet accepted norms.
negative deviance
sociology is the idea that two control systems—inner controls and outer controls—work against our tendencies to deviate.
control theory
an offence which goes beyond the personal and into the public sphere, breaking prohibitory rules or laws, to which legitimate punishments or sanctions are attached, and which requires the intervention of a public authority.
crime
the social structures and processes by which persons with chronic or, respectively, long- term health impairments and disabilities are reintegrated into the economic, social and cultural life of society and especially into working life.
rehabilitation
An organization with formal procedures and standards; typically having a clear division of labor, explicit rules, and a hierarchy of authority.
bureaucracy
based on the observation that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviour and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers.
positive deviance
people learn criminal values, skils and motives through assossiccation and interaction with different people.
differential association
A collection of institutions taken together (police, judiciary, corrections), which create and enforce law.
criminal justice system
a person's relapse into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for a previous crime.
recidivism
the ability to impose one's will on others, even if those others resist in some way.
Power
situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance
stigma
when people refrain from crime because of fear of legal punishment.
deterrence
the legitimate or socially approved power which one person or a group possesses and practices over another.
authority
punishment by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crime
retribution