Theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to number of deviant acts they are exposed to.
What is differential association theory?
100
Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior
What is social control?
100
The occasional violation of deviance
What is Primary deviance?
100
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
What is Retribution?
100
A Wall Street stock broker is convicted for embezzlement. What type of crime have they committed?
What is White Collar Crimes?
200
Theory that deviance is more likely to occur when a gap exists between cultural goals and the ability to achieve these goals by legitimate means.
What is Strain Theory?
200
Acts committed in violation of the law.
What is Crime?
200
A powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity.
What is a Stigma?
200
The assumption that people are not permanently criminal and that it is possible to restore a criminal to a useful life, to a life in which they contribute to themselves and to society
What is Rehabilitation?
200
the organizations that respond to alleged violations of the law.
What is the criminal justice system?
300
Theory that society creates deviance by identifying particular members as deviant.
What is Labeling Theory?
300
Punishment such as criticism, fines and imprisonment used to encourage conformity.
What is negative sanctions?
300
Behavior that matches group expectations.
What is Conformity?
300
Repeated criminal behavior.
What is Recidivism?
300
The individual accepts the goal of success but uses illegal means to achieve it. The most obvious and widespread type of deviant response.
What is Innovation?
400
Theory that compliance with social norms requires strong bonds between individuals and society. If those bonds are weak, deviance occurs.
What is Control Theory?
400
The practice of assuming that nonwhite Americans are more likely to commit a crime than white Americans.
What is Racial Profiling?
400
Good grades, promotions or raises, cheers and gestures of approval are used to encourage conformity.
What is positive sanctions?
400
The inability to reach a cultural goal but accept work as the appropriate means to succeed.
What is Ritualism?
400
Process of reducing the seriousness of the crimes that injure people of lower social status.
What is victim discounting?
500
The recognized violation of cultural norms.
What is Deviance?
500
This is the condition that arises due to the lack of social norms.
What is anomie?
500
A stage in which an individual's life and identity are organized around breaking society's norms.
What is Secondary Deviance?
500
Rejects both cultural goals and rejects hard work as the appropriate way to succeed. In effect, this person drops out of the race for success.
What is Retreatism?
500
Legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
What is the Death Penalty?
What is Capital Punishment?