A.C 1.1

Question 1

social definition of crime

Answer 1

what society says is a crime
Blackburn ‘acts attracting legal punishments […] offences against the community’

Question 2

legal definition of crime

Answer 2

what the legal system defines as a crime

Question 3

actus reus

Answer 3

guilty act

Question 4

men’s rea

Answer 4

an intention of the crime

Question 5

social definition pt2

Answer 5

it means different things to different people in different societies at different times

Question 6

deviance

Answer 6

acts and behaviours that’s society considers ‘abnormal’

Question 7

norms

Answer 7

social expectations that guide behaviours

Question 8

values

Answer 8

rules shared by most people in a culture

Question 9

mores

Answer 9

good ways of behaving

Question 10

admired behaviour

Answer 10

behaviour that is considered good or admirable, while also breaking the social norm

Question 11

odd behaviour

Answer 11

many forms of behaviour, whilst not being criminal, are often considered to be somehow odd or different to normal behaviour

Question 12

bad behaviour

Answer 12

tends to be restricted to lawbreaking or criminal behaviour that is in someway as seen as being something more than simply outlandish or eccentric

Question 13

formal sanctions

Answer 13

handed from someone in power

Question 14

informal

Answer 14

handed about by society