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Social Control
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The techniques and strategies used for preventing deviant human behavior in any society. |
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| The penalties and rewards we face for conduct concerning a social norm. |
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The act of going along with peers, individuals of our own status who have no specail right to direct our behavior. |
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| Complaince with higher authorities in a hierarchial structure. |
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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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| Social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police officers, judges, school administrators, and employers |
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· A view of conformity and deviance that suggests our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society’s norms.
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| Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of agroup or society. |
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| A label used to devalue members of certain social goups. |
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| A violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies for formal penalties. |
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| The eight types of crime reported annually by the FBI in the Uniform Crime Reports: Murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggrvated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, & arson |
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| A questionnaire or interview given to a sample of the population to determine whether people have been victims of crime. |
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Illegal acts commited by affluent, respectable individuals in the course of business activities.
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| A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widly desired, but illegal, goods and services. |
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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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| Anomie Theory Of Deviance |
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| Merton's Theory of Devience as an adaptation of socially perscribed goals or the means governing their attainment, or both. |
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A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
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A theory of devience that holds violation of rules reuslts from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts. |
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Social Disorganization Theory |
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The theory that attributes increases in crime and deviance to the absence or breakdown of communal relationships and social institutions, such as the family, school, church, and local government.
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An 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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Societal-Reaction Approach |
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| Another name for labeling theory |
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| Difference in the way social control is exercised over different groups. |
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| How do groups maintain social control? |
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| They use positive and negative sanctions in both formal and informal ways to bring about conformity and obedience. |
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What is the difference between deviance and crime? |
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Deviance involves violating a group's expected norms, which may lead the offender to be stigmatized. Crime is a form of deviance that involves violating the formal norms administered for which the offender may receive formal sanctions.
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