Ch. 11- Crime and Deviance Flashcards
Deviance
any behavior that departs from what the majority of a community or the whole society considers to be “normal.”
Crime
any act that is forbidden by law.
Hate crime
a particular type of crime involving discrimination against or hateful acts toward particular groups in society (e.g., African-Americans and homosexuals).
Crime rate
the number of incidents of crime within a particular area across a given time period.
Imprisonment rate
The number of individuals imprisoned in a particular year.
Volitional criminology
A particular way of framing crime as a social problem. From this perspective, the public understands crimes to be the result of individuals’ moral failings and their decisions to act illegally, rather than the effect of social forces such as poverty or racial discrimination.
White-collar crimes
crimes that take place within the business and corporate sector, such as false advertising, unfair labor practice, and embezzlement.
Strain
a condition experienced when the members of a society lack a sufficient amount of legitimate means to achieve socially approved goals, prompting some individuals to pursue their aims through alternative means, such as deviant or criminal actions (e.g. people who are impoverished and need to feed their families).
W.I. Thomas Theory
if people define a situation as real, it is real in their consequences.
Deviant career
the process of internalizing and accepting the label of “deviant.”
Moral panic
a period or episode of heightened anxiety about what are seen as symptoms of moral decline in society.
Social regulation
the ways in which society regulates our actions and behaviors.
What is
any behavior that departs from what the majority of a community or the whole society considers to be “normal.”
Deviance
What is
any act that is forbidden by law.
Crime
What is
a particular type of crime involving discrimination against or hateful acts toward particular groups in society (e.g., African-Americans and homosexuals).
Hate crime
