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Vocabulary
Criminal Justice System
Types of Crime
Social Functions of Deviance
Theories
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Deviance
What is behaviors that violates important social norms?
100
Police
What is the profession that holds the most immediate control over who is arrested?
100
White Collar Crimes
What is individuals of high status in their professional lives who commit deviance in forms of fraud, tax evasion, insider trading, etc.?
100
Provides Jobs
Judges, lawyers, police, prison personnel, parole officers all help in one area of deviance which gives society what?
100
Strain Theory
What theory views deviance as the natural out growth of the values, norms, and structure of society.
200
Crime Syndicate
Where crime is an enterprise in organized crime is called what?
200
Plea Bargain
90% of all criminal cases end in an?
200
Crime Against Property
What is burglary, theft, car theft and arson classified as?
200
Diffuse Tention
What is expressing political or social discontent with out destroying social order?
200
Control Theory
What theory states that deviance is a natural occurrence?
300
Crime
What is any act that is labeled as such by authority, is prohibited by law, and is punishable by the government?
300
Corrections
What is the forms of punishment for the guilty such as prison, parole, probation and community service called?
300
Organized Crime
What is a large scale organizations of professional criminals that controls some vice or business through violence?
300
Unities Group
What is the social function that draws a sense of community and has shared values that draws the line between members and "outsiders"?
300
Cultural Transmission Theory
What the theory that states that deviance is a learned behavior in much the same way non-deviant behavior, through interaction with others?
400
Plea Bargain
What is the process of legal negotiations that allows an accused person to plead guilty to a lesser charge in return for a lighter sentence?
400
Courts
What is the next step in the criminal justice system after an individual is arrested?
400
Violent Crimes
What is murder, forceable rape, robbery, aggravated assault classified as?
400
Clarify Norms
What is the social function that defines boundaries of acceptable behavior?
400
Labeling Theory
What theory focuses on the HOW individuals come to be identified as deviant rather than the WHY.
500
Stigma
What is the mark of social disgrace that sets you apart from the rest of society?
500
Police Discretion
What is the power police have to decide who is actually arrested?
500
Victimless Crime
What is crimes such as prostitution, illegal gambling, and drug use called?
500
Promotes Social Change
What helps identify problem areas that need corrected in society that serves as a social function?
500
Differential Association Theory
What theory, like the cultural transmission theory, refers that deviance is learned behavior, however this theory refers to the frequency and closeness of associations a person have with deviant and non-deviant individuals. That if the majority of your interactions are with deviant individuals, you are more likely to be socialized into patterns of deviant behaviors.