CH 4 Vocabulary
This is the sum total of a person's attitude, beliefs, and values
What is personality?
This is the occasional violation of norms. Doesn't result in a person being labeled deviant.
Primary deviance
This is a type of crime committed by people who are respected in society/ have a high social standing
What is White-Collar Crime?
This perspective would say that the positive functions of deviance include job creation and clarifying norms
Functionalist perspective
The three parts of the criminal justice system
Cops, courts, corrections
This is the interactive process through which a person's personality is developed
Socialization
This is when a person has internalized the label of deviant and society has labeled them deviant as well
Secondary deviance
Murder, armed robbery, and rape are examples of this type of crime
Violent crime
This perspective would attempt to understand why individuals act like deviants/criminals
Interactionist perspective
Repeated criminal behavior
Recidivism
The argument of heredity verse environment could also be called this
What is nature verse nurture?
This theory states that deviance is a learned behavior; the more a person socializes with deviant people the more likely they are to become deviant
What is Cultural Transmission Theory?
This type of crime includes vandalism, theft, defacement of public property
Property crime
This perspective could analyze the positive or negative functions of deviance; the negative being the social and economic cost to society
Functionalist
A situation in society with the norms and values are unclear
Anomie
What is total institution?
This theory is closely related to secondary deviance. A person internalizes that they are deviant and society has applied that term to the individual as well
Labeling theory
Racketeering, Fraud, Embezzlement, and money laundering are examples of this
What is white-collar crime?
This perspective would say deviance is a result of inequality and competition in society
Conflict
When a person is held alone, away from the rest of the prison population, it is referred to as
Solitary confinement
This man developed the looking glass theory
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
This was a theory that stated people may act in a deviant manner in order to meet the economic demands of society.
What is Merton's strain theory?
1st degree murder in Massachusetts carries a minimum sentence of ________
Life in prison
Labeling theory and Cultural Transmission theory are all a part of this sociological perspective
Interactionist
This is when a person follow's society's economic expectations of making money but does not follow approved ways of gaining it
Innovation