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Chapter 7
Labeling and Reintegrative Theory
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Criminology
Undergraduate 3
04/03/2013

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Decriminalization
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Removing of status offenders from the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system
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Deinstitutionalization
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The removal of juveniles from jails, detention centers, and institutions.
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Disintegrative Shaming
Definition
Process by which an individual is punished, labeled, and made to feel shame for committing a deviant act in a manner that degrades and devalues the individual.
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Diversion Movement
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Refers to efforts to divert individuals who are suspected or have been charged with minor offenses, from the full and formal process of the juvenile or adult system.
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Faith-Based Programs
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Religiously based programs that use spiritual beliefs and values to change offenders' attitudes and behaviors.
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Labeling Theory
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Theory that the formal and informal application of stigmatizing and deviant labels or tags applied to an individual by society will not deter, but rather instigate future deviant or criminal acts.
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Net-Widening
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A problem that occurs when offenders who would have been released from the system are placed into a program simply because it exists.
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Pre-trial Intervention/Delayed Adjudication
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Programs for first time, nonviolent adult offenders. If they agree to specific conditions, they may avoid trial or sentencing altogether.
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Primary Deviance
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The deviant acts you commit prior to getting a certain label.
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Radical Non-Intervention
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The belief that it is better to simply tolerate minor offenses rather than risk being labeled as an offender.
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Reintegrative Shaming
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Process where you punish, label and shame an individual for committing a criminal act, but in such a way that they are integrated back into society and restored to a position of respectability.
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Restorative Justice
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Refers to programs which are designed to make offenders take responsibility for their actions and restore them and their victims, as much as possible, back to things as they existed before the attack.
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Secondary Deviance
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Criminal or deviant acts that are committed after a certain label has been applied to the individual.
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