Theory
All behavior is learned, therefore deviant behavior is also learned.
What is Cultural Transmission Theory?
Murder, Rape, Robbery, and Assault
What is FBI Part 1 Violent Crimes?
Behavior that violates certain norms.
What is deviance?
Deviant behavior varies throughout time (history) and between _________________?
Societies.
How individuals become labeled as deviant.
What is Labeling Theory?
Participants typically do not see themselves as being victimized or suffering from the transaction-- What kind of crime is this?
Victimless crimes.
The mark of social disgrace that sets the deviants apart from the rest of society.
What is stigma?
In strain theory what do rebels do?
Reject both the goals and mean, replacing them with nothing.
Basic factors of this theory:
Attachment
Commitment
Involvement
Belief
What is Control Theory?
Crimes motivated by bigotry based on race, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.
What are hate crimes?
What are the 5 functions of deviance?
Clarifying Norms, Unifying the group, Diffusing tension, Promoting social change, Providing jobs
¡Social control rests mainly on _______________ and informal controls.
What is self control?
Explains deviance as the inability of individuals to successfully navigate in attaining socially approved goals by socially approved means.
What is StrainTheory?
Robbing a liquor store is an example of a white collar crime---- T or F
False?
If you find a purse or wallet out in public, what kind of social control are you subject to?
What is a sanction?
A social reaction of approval or disapproval in response to someone's actions.
Primary, Secondary, Deviant Career, and Radical non-intervention are a part of which theory?
What is Labeling Theory?
Crimes committed by an individual from a lower social class causing injury to person and property are called what kind of crime?
Blue Collar crime.
According to the Control Theory, individuals who have _________________ are less likely to commit deviant acts.
What 2 ways can someone be labeled deviant?
Committing 1 big act of deviance OR committing lots of smaller acts of deviance.