You oughta know
Making the familiar unfamiliar
Sociological Imagination
He was the social/psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo
Term that refers to crime committed by high ranking members of society, usually related finance
White Collar Crime
Young people often join gangs because they provide a sense of belonging, meaning and purpose to their lives.
Functionalism
Locking dangerous offenders up in prison
Incarceration
The process by which culture is transmitted, norms are taught and self image is curated
Socialization
Defined society as comprised of the proletariat and bourgeosie
Karl Marx
Three aspects of the criminal justice system
Law Enforcement, Courts and Corrections
Bullying and conflict helps build character by facing adversity and learning to deal with conflict.
Functionalism
Using penalties and punishments to make the risk outweigh potential reward
Deterrence
The position one occupies within a social structure
Status
Emile Durkheim
Term that refers to the pattern of a criminal returning to and repeating a pattern of behaviour
Recidivism
Corporations use their wealth, power and influence to maintain a legal framework that allows them to exploit the working classes.
Conflict Theory
Death penalty arguably may exemplify all approaches to crime control EXCEPT...
Rehabiliation
3 components that relate to each other and provide a broad understanding of culture
Norms, Values and Beliefs
Symbolic Interaction who defined stages of childhood development
Term coined by Emile Durkheim for social conditions where deviance is most likely
Anomie
Establishing one's identity is a complex process that results largely from socialization
Symbolic Interactionism
prison based education and counselling programs
rehabilitation
The idea of judging cultural practices against the norms/values/beliefs of that particular culture rather than one's own
Cultural Relativism
Devised both the obedience and small world studies
Stanley Milgram
Robert Merton described type of deviance with this theory
Strain Theory
our most important institutions were developed by a privileged group of people and they have inherent flaws when it comes to serving other groups of people, such as minorities, women, etc.
Conflict Theory
Punitive and harsh prison conditions
Retribution