Chapter 7,8,9,10 Flashcards
Define plea bargaining.
Pleading guilty in order to get a lesser sentence.
Define deviance?
Recognize violation of cultural norms.
Define crime?
Violation of society laws.
What are some type of crimes?
Hate crime, organized, white collar crime, corporate crime, and victimless crime.
Define hate crime.
Criminal behavior against their sexual orientation.
Define organized crime?
Supplying illegal services and goods.
Define white collar crime?
Crime committed by people of high social position by the course of the occupation.
Define corporate crime.
Refers to a illegal action of their corporation people acting on their behalf.
Define victimless crime.
Doing an illegal act that doesn’t cause harm.
What are some type of punishments?
Retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and social protection.
Define retribution.
Moral crime.
Define deterrence.
Un attempted to discourage crime.
Define rehabilitation
Informant defend offensives
In the United States men account for ______percent of all arrests for violent crime.
80
Men who represent about half the population, account for about _____percent of all arrests for property crime in the United States.
62
Define stratification
Society ranks category people in hierarchy.
Define caste.
Based on a subscription of birth.
Define class.
Based on individual agreement.
Define meritocracy.
Based on personal merit.
Define relative poverty.
Someone that has more than you.
Define absolute poverty.
Life threatening.
Define upper uppers
Rich people who are born into wealth.
The wealthiest 1percent of US families controls about ______percent of the nations privately held wealth.
35
Roughly ____to_____ percent of the US population falls within the middle class.
40 to 45