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Functions of Deviance
Perspectives
Crime
Criminal Justice
100
This is a mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society
What is stigma?
100
Painting your house pink, on street with all white houses
What is clarifying social norms?
100
Deviance is a learned behavior
What is cultural transmission?
100
Violent Crime
What is a crime that involves bodily injury to others.
100
Police use when arresting someone
Who can use police descretion?
200
This is behavior that violates social norms
What is deviance?
200
Protest
What is social change?
200
If you grow up seeing deviance, you will be a deviant.
What is cultural transmission theory?
200
Gambling
What is Victimless Crime?
200
Rehabilitation and deterrence are two of its functions.
What is corrections?
300
Results in the individual being labeled as deviant and accepting the label as true
What is Labeling Theory?
300
petitioning, and protest
What is social change?
300
Social inequality causes deviance.
What is conflict perspective?
300
Stealing, breaking into a home, and arson.
What is crime against property?
300
Assign guilt and a punishment
What are the courts?
400
Determines guilt or innocence and assigns some form of punishment
What are the Courts?
400
Police, courts, and corrections.
What is creating jobs?
400
A natural outgrowth of the norms.
What is functionalist perspective?
400
Tony Soprano.
What is organized crime?
400
This court is for people younger then 18 years of age.
What is Juvenile-Justice?
500
The explanation of deviance as a learned behavior
What is Cultural Transmission Theory?
500
Gangs.
What is unifying groups?
500
If you have weak ties to the community you may become a deviant.
What is control theory?
500
Offenses committed by individuals of high social status in the course of their professional lives.
What is white-collar crime?
500
Process of legal negotiation that allows an individual to plead guilty to a lesser charge in return for a lighter sentence.
What is plea bargaining?