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Criminology Terms
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Criminology
Undergraduate 2
10/30/2011

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Anome
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The normalness that arises when social structure is broken down. Leading to more crime due to this lack of regulation.
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Emily Durkheim
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Studied Anome and it's relation to suicide. Her work was used by later strain theorists so back up their claims.
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Strain Theory
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The idea that when put under strain or stress that people are more inclined to commit crimes. IE caught in construction, speeds to make up time.
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Focal Concerns of the Lower Class
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trouble toughness smartness excitement fate and autonomy
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Walter Miller
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Wrote a theory that stated that lower class juveniles commit crimes to fulfill their focal concerns
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Albert Cohen
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Wrote a theory that states that Juveniles will commit crimes for status amongst their peers.
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Social Learning Theory
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States that being exposed to criminal activity through childhood will lead to learning it and committing it later in life.
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Labeling Theory
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States that people are given labels based on consequences that come with acts that they make early in life. They are put in groups because of deviance. And that delinquency and laws are labeled by those with power.
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Primary Deviation
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The initial labeling done by those in power. The labeling of being a delinquent.
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Secondary Deviation
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The labeling that is done by society because of the consequences that are placed upon the deviant.
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Marxist Criminalogy
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A radical view that states that people in the lower class are being repressed by the upper class, or ruling class that place more heavy punishments on crimes that are tipically committed by lower class and minority demographics.
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Feminist Criminology
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A theory that states that there is an unfair view on women in the criminal justice system and that they are viewed as childish and feeble and need to be protected so they don't get convicted as often.
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Liberal Criminology
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Focuses on the Female presence in the labor force and that women aren't viewed as being as powerful as men and aims to eliminate these views or at least soften them.
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Radical Feminism
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States that men have completely dominated women in society and that women are labelled more frequently due to sexual delinquency than anything else. And that women who follow male laws are considered co-opted into male society.
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Marxist Feminism
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Claims that due to women's lack of presence in the labor men have swayed the social view towards themselves through economics and rule society due to this.
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George Vold
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Believes that criminal behavior is strictly a working class phenomena.
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