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| one of Robert Merton's responses to the inability to succeed, involving rejection of both cultural goals and means; the individual "drops out" |
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| the violation of society's formally enacted criminal law |
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| medicalization of deviance |
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| the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition |
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| one who, according to Merton, uses unconventional means to achieve a culturally approved goal |
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| the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf |
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| Edwin Sutherland's theory that a person's tendency toward conformity or deviance depends on the amount of contact her or she has with others who encourage or reject conventional behavior |
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| the attempt to discourage criminality through punishment |
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| violations of law in which there are no readily apparent victims |
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| the recognized violation of cultural norms |
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| the idea that deviance and conformity result not only from what people do but how others respond to those actions |
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| a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a persons self-concept and social identity |
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| one of Merton's responses to failure involving rejection of both culturally approved means and goals, going one step further by forming a counterculture and advocating alternative to the existing order |
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| one of Merton's responses to failure involving accepting society's means but recognizing the goals are only minimally acceptable |
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| one who, according to Merton, pursues conventional goals through approved means, successfully acquiring wealth and prestige |
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| attempts by society to regulate a people's thoughts and behavior |
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| a program for reforming the offender to prevent subsequent offenses |
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| an act of moral vengeance by which society inflicts suffering on the offender comparable to that caused by the offense |
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| a way of life characterized by repeated norm violations |
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| crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations |
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