crime and deviance key concepts

Question 1

crime

Answer 1

an action that’s against the law

Question 2

deviance

Answer 2

actions that go against the norms and values of a society

Question 3

cross cultural deviance

Answer 3

something that’s deviant in some cultures but not in others

Question 4

situational deviance

Answer 4

something only deviant in certain situations

Question 5

historical deviance

Answer 5

only deviant at a certain time

Question 6

conformity

Answer 6

following the rules

Question 7

agents of social control

Answer 7

groups that control our behavoir

Question 8

formal social control

Answer 8

agents that only exist to control society

Question 9

informal social control

Answer 9

agents that control society but isn’t their only function

Question 10

official statistics

Answer 10

shows what crimes have been committed. Information supplied by police, courts and prison system

Question 11

victim survey

Answer 11

people are asked what crimes have been committed against them

Question 12

self report study

Answer 12

questionnaire that asks what crimes they have comitted

Question 13

delinquency

Answer 13

undesirable,anti social behaviour of young people

Question 14

peer group pressure

Answer 14

pressure applied to a person by a group to get them to fit in with the groups norms

Question 15

labelling

Answer 15

thinking of a person/group of people in a certain way presuming everyone in that group are a particular type of person

Question 16

gender socialisation

Answer 16

teaching males and females the expected patterns of behaviour for their gender

Question 17

police targetting

Answer 17

the police focus on a particular group of people in society,believing them to be involved in criminal activity

Question 18

discrimination

Answer 18

treating people differently because of their social characteristics eg.not giving someone a job bc they are female

Question 19

racism

Answer 19

treating people differently because of their ethnicity

Question 20

alienation

Answer 20

not feeling part of the wider society or culture,feeling separate or cut off from it

Question 21

self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 21

a way of thinking about a person/group of people that causes them to behave in a way that makes that belief a reality

Question 22

deviance based on role

Answer 22

eg.soldiers get away with killing