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| Posits that society creates deviance through a system of social control agencies that designate (or label) certain individuals as delinquents, thereby stigmatizing youths and encouraging them to accept this negative personal identity. |
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| The concept of how people communicate via symbols-gestures, signs, words or images that stand for or represent something else. |
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| The Society of the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) |
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| an international professional organization of social science scholars interested in interactions research |
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| Something such as a possession, rank, or activity, by which one’s social or economic prestige is measured. |
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| The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition. |
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| To mark someone with disgrace or reproach, to characterize or brand someone as disgraceful or disreputable. |
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| Norm violations that have very little influence on the actor and can be quickly forgotten and or overlooked. |
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| Norm violations that have very little influence on the actor and can be quickly forgotten and or overlooked. |
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| Deviant acts that define the actor and create a new identity. |
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| youths who engage in delinquency and also get caught and labeled |
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| youths that are both rule-abiding and free of negative labels. |
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| are blamed for something they did not do, while some who continually break the law are able to avoid the labeling. |
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| People who bear negative labels become secondary deviants – their label becomes a master status by which they are defined. |
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| The reassessment of a person’s past to fit a current generalized label. |
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| The process of social typing that transforms an offender’s identity from a doer of evil to an evil person. |
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| Deviant behavior patterns that are a response to an earlier labeling experience; youths act out these social roles even if they were falsely bestowed. |
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| Going into court, being scolded by a judge or being found delinquent after a trial are examples of public ceremonies that can transform youthful offenders by degrading their self-image. |
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| Is the removing juvenile from adult jails and placing them in community-based programs to avoid the stigma attached to these facilities. |
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| asserts that society is in a state of constant internal conflict, and focuses on the role of social and governmental institutions as mechanisms for social control. |
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| The process of creating a global economy through transnational markets and political and legal systems. |
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| Using humanistic, non-punitive strategies to right wrongs and restore harmony. |
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| The feeling we get when we don’t meet the standards we have set for ourselves or that significant others has set for us. |
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| Technique used to allow offenders to understand and recognize their wrongdoing and shame themselves. To be reintegrative, shaming themselves. To be reintergrative – shaming must be brief and controlled and then followed by ceremonies of forgiveness , apology and repentance. |
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