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| A person whp pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation, developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals |
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| A theory of deviance that holds the violation of rules results from exposure of attitudes favorable to criminal acts. |
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| Anomie theory of deviance |
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| Adaptation of socially prescribed goals or of the means of governing their attainment, or both. |
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| Societal-reaction approach |
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| Another name for the labeling theory |
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| Approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaged in the same behavior are not |
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| Social constructionist perspective |
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| Approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity |
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| Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society |
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| Compliance with higher authorities in a heirarchical structure |
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| Crime that occurs accross multiple national borders |
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| Differences in the way social control is execised over different groups |
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| Govermental social control |
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| Illegal acts commited by affluent, "respectable" individuals in the course of business activities |
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| Loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective |
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| Routine activities theory |
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| Notion that criminal victimization increases when motivated offenders and suitable targets converge |
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| Penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm |
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| Questionnaire or interview given to a sample of the population to determine whether people have been victims of crime |
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| School of criinology that argues that criminal bahavior is learned through social interactions |
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| Social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police officers, judges, school administrators, and employers |
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| Social control that is carried out casually by ordinary people through such means as laughter, smiles, and ridicule. |
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| Techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society |
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| Term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired, but illegal, goods and services. |
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| The eight types of crime reported annually by the FBI in the uniform crime reports : murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson |
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| The work of a group that regulates relations among criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities, including prostitution, gambling, and the smuggling and sale of illegal drugs |
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| View of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically confrom to society's norms |
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| Violation of criminal law for which some govermental authority applies formal penalities |
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| label used to devalue members of certain social groups |
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