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21 Cards in this Set
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Deviance |
p. 194) the recognized violation of cultural norms
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Crime
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p. 194) the violation of a society’s formally enacted criminal law
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Social Control
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p. 194) attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior
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Criminal Justice System
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p. 194) the organizations—police, courts, and prison officials—that respond to alleged violations of the law
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Labeling Theory
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p. 200) the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions
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Stigma
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p. 200) a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person’s self-concept and social identity
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Medicalization of Deviance
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p. 201) the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition
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White-collar Crime
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p. 203) crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations
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Corporate Crime
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p. 204) the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf
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Organized Crime
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p. 204) a business supplying illegal goods or services
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Hate Crime
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p. 205) a criminal act against a person or a person’s property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias
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Crimes Against the Person
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p. 207) crimes that direct violence or the threat of violence against others; also known as violent crimes
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Crimes Against Property
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p. 207) crimes that involve theft of property belonging to others; also known as property crimes
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Victimless Crimes
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p. 207) violations of law in which there are no obvious victims
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Plea Bargaining
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p. 212) a legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant’s guilty plea
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Retribution
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p. 213) an act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crime
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Deterrence
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p. 213) the attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishment
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Rehabilitation
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p. 213) a program for reforming the offender to prevent later offenses
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Societal Protection
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p. 213) rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through imprisonment or permanently by execution
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Criminal Recidivism
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p. 214) later offenses by people previously convicted of crimes
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Community-based Corrections
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p. 215) correctional programs operating within society at large rather than behind prison walls |