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What is Deviance
Explanations of Deviance
Symbolic Interactionist Theories
Functionalist and Conflict Theory
Reaction to Deviance
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Any violation of norms
What is Deviance
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Being born with characteristics that lead them to become juvenile delinquents and criminals.
What is Genetic Predispositions
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Which theory states that all deviant behavior is learned?
What is Differential Association Theory
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What are the three main reasons, given by Emile Durkheim, that states why deviance is functional for society?
What is Deviance clarifies moral boundaries and affirms norms, Deviance promotes social unity, and Deviance promotes social change.
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The term used for the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested
What is Recidivism Rate
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The violation of rules that have been written into law
What is Crime
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Acts such as mugging, rape, and burglary are considered what type of crime?
What is Street crime
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This theory stresses that two control systems work against our motivations to deviate.
What is Control theory
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What are the four deviant paths?
What are Innovators, Ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion
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Anyone who is convicted of a third felony receives an automatic mandatory sentences is called?
What is Three Strike Law
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refers to characteristics that discredit people
What is Stigma
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What are the three explanations for genetic predispositions?
What is Intelligence, the "XYY" theory, and Body type.
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Focuses on the significance of the labels that we are given.
What is Labeling theory
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Crimes that people of respectable and high social status commit in the course of their occupations.
What is White-collar crime
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The killing of several victims in three of more separate events.
What is Serial Murder
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Which sociologist described deviance as- It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.
Who is Howard S. Becker
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What do psychologists examine to explain deviance?
What is Personality Disorders.
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What are the five techniques of neutralization to deflect society's norms?
What is Denial of Responsibility, Denial of Injury, Denial of Victim, Condemnations of the Condemners, and Appeal to Higher Loyalties.
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The police, courts, and prisons that deal with people who are acused of having committed crimes.
What is the Criminal justice system
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Crime that is motivated by bias (dislike, hatred) against someone's race-ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin.
What is Hate Crime
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The term that describes - what is deiant to some is not deviant to others.
What is Relativity of Deviance
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Sociologists search for factors _______ the individual.
What is Outside.
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What are the 4 bonds associated with the control theory?
What is Attachments, commitments, involvements, and beliefs.
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A tool designed by the powerful to maintain their privileged position.
What is The law as an instrument of oppression.
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The psychiatrist that argues that mental illnesses are neither mental nor illnesses. they are simply problem behaviors.
Who is Thomas Szasz