Crime and Deviance 2
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leahmdomask on October 19, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Deviance | breaking rules |
| Behavioral Deviance | intentional or unintentional behavior (drunk driving, not meaning to kill someone) |
| Relative | IT DEPENDS (killing someone while defending yourself--okay. Randomly killing someone--NOT OKAY) |
| Stigma | physical or social sign that identifies someone not being fully accepted |
| Anomie | giving up because norms are weak, absent, or conflicting |
| Strain Theory | strain exposed when someone cant reach their goals |
| Symbolic Interactions | deviance is learned through others |
| Different Association Theory | hanging out with deviant group (friends) that promote deviance (swearing) |
| Rational Choice Theory | Deviance caused by weighing costs (speeding) |
| Social Bond Theory | Stronger the bond, lesser the deviance |
| Labeling Theory | labeling a person deviant (Dylan Thelen) |
| Primary Deviance | one time rule breaker |
| Secondary Deviance | All the time rule breaker |
| Tertiary deviance | strippers--they think what they do is okay, when society doesn't |
| Power | norms and laws created to protect those in power |
| Capitalism | norms and laws created to protect capitalist class |
| Social Control | pracitces to encourage conformity to norms, rules, and laws |
| Criminology | study of crime and justice system |
| Crime | violates laws with a negative sanction |
| Major Felonies | Index crimes (murder, rape, burglary) |
| Minor Offense | misdemeanors (drunk driving) |
| Juvenile Deliquency | violation by young person |
| Organized | Gangs, Mafia, Mobs--business operation that supports illegal goods and services |
| Political | Brett Favre sending pictures to reporter |
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