Systems/ Theroy
A web or social relationships that join a person to other people and groups
What is Social Network?
A behavior that departs from societal or group norms
What is Deviance?
Job-related crimes committed by high-status people
What is White-Collar Crime?
A group deliberately created to achieve one or more long-term goals
What is Formal Organization?
The process of changing or reforming a criminal through socialization
What is Rehabilitation?
A voluntary action performed in the expectation or getting a reward in return
What is Social Exchange?
A behavior that overconforms to social expectations
What is Positive Deviance?
An act committed in violation of the law
What is Crime?
A group within a formal organization in which personal relationships are guided by norms, rituals, and sentiments that are a part of the formal organization
What is Informal Organization?
A method of protecting society from criminals by keeping them in prison
What is Incarceration?
A system comprising institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal statutes
What is Criminal Justice System?
A behavior that underconforms to accepted norms
What is Negative Deviance?
An undesirable label that is used to deny a deviant social acceptance
What is Stigma?
A formal organization based on rationality and efficiency
What is Bureaucracy?
Punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their acts
What is Retribution?
The theory that states individuals learn deviance in proportion to the number of deviant acts and norms in which they are exposed
What is Differential Association Theory?
A social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent
What is Anomie?
The ability to control the behavior of others
What is Power?
Discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment
What is Deterrence?
The theory that compliance with social norms requires strong bonds between individuals and society
What is Control Theory?
The legitimate or socially approved use of power; power accepted as legitimate by those subject to it
What is Authority?
A repetition of, or return to, criminal behavior
What is Recidivism?