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Crime And Deviance Key Words Flashcards

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Atrophy

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Breaking apart slowly

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British crime survey

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A victim survey conducted annually by a team of researchers at the home office.
Measures the amount of crime in England and Wales by asking people about crimes they have experienced in the past year

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Capitalist society

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An economic system where the production of goods is organised for profit and sold to a free market

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Agent of social control

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Individual or group that is responsible for ensuring members of society conform to socially accepted behaviour

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Chivalry thesis

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The criminal justice system may be more lenient to woman

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Collective conscience

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A term used by Durkheim to describe the core shared values of society

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Corporate crime

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Crimes committed on behalf of and for the benefit of the organisation

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Collective deviance

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Deviant behaviour of a group

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Crime

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Behaviour that breaks the law

Can also be deviant

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Delinquency

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The criminal behaviour of people

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Dark figure of crime

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A large amount of criminal activity never appears on crime statistics

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Deviance

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An action that goes against the norms and values of society

Can also be a crime

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Anomie

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A state of normlessness, where norms no longer direct behaviour

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Deviant career

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The various stages that a person goes through on their way to being seen as and seeing themselves as, deviant

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Dominant ideology

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The mainstream set of beliefs that are held by society on which people set as the standard

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Deviance amplification

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Deviance is increased by societal reaction

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Formal methods of social control

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Institutions set up to enforce social control, especially those that set up and enforce the law
Police, army

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Folk devil

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A person or group seen as trouble makers by the media

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Hegemony

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The norms and values of the ruling class which dominate thinking in society

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Individual deviance

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The deviant behaviour of an individual

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Informal methods of social control

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Institutions and groups that are but directly concerned with enforcing social control but play an important part in controlling the behaviour of others
School, family

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Immediate gratification

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Wanting rewards immediately

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Green crime

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Crime against the environment

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Master status

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People are looked at by others solely on the basis of one type of act (good or bad) they have committed
All other aspects of that person are ignored

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Illegitimate opportunity structure

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A structure which provides illegal opportunities for monetary gain

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Moral crusade

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The process of creating or enforcing a rule

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Institutional racism

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Racism that is built in to the normal practises of an organisation

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Marginalised

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Those who are pushed to the edge, or margins, of society in cultural, economic or status terms

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Moral panic

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Outrage stirred up by the media about a particular group or issue

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Multi agency intervention

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A number of agencies cooperating to focus on the solution to a social problem

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Occupational crime

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Crimes committed by employees at the expense of the business

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Moral entrepreneur

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Person or group which tries to create or enforce a rule

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Open/public deviance

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Deviance committed in public which is not concealed from wider society

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Police recorded crime

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Crimes recorded by the police from which official statistics on crime are drawn

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Non-utilitarian crime

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Crime that is not committed to gain money, eg vandalism, graffiti

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Night time economy

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A leisure industry has developed at nights in certain parts of the inner cities, providing the location of many offenders

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Repeat victimisation

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People are victims of the same crime more than once

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Relative deprivation

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The way so called deprivation is seen or perceived by those experiencing it. This is usually done by comparing their situation to others

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Recorded crime

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Crime that is recorded by the police

Not all reported crime is recorded

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Prosecution

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Conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant of criminal behaviour

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Peer group pressure

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A group of a persons own age who are important to them and often influence then to behave in a particular way

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Self report study

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A survey in which respondents report on the offences they have committed over a period of time

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Reported crime

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Crime that is reported to the police

Not all crime is reported

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Situational deviance

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Behaviour which may be seen as deviant in one situation but not in another

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Social control

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Methods of controlling people’s behaviour, encouraging them to conform to societies norms and values and discourage deviant and criminal behaviour

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Scapegoat

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Groups in society (usually relatively powerless) who are blamed by the powerful for the problems of society, thus drawing attention away fir the real cause of crime

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State crime

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Crimes committed by or on behalf of the state

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Secret/private deviance

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Deviance conducted in private which is often conceded from wider society

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Social cohesion

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The extent to which a society is held together by shared culture and norms

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Primary deviance

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The act if deviance itself

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Secondary deviance

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The response to an act of deviance and what it causes

- Inuits

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Status frustration

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Dissatisfaction and frustration with the status and respect given by others

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Stigmatised

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Labelled in a negative way

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Subculture

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Distinctive norms and values shared by a group in society that differ from the values of mainstream society

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Societal deviance

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Behaviour which is seen as deviant by most members if society

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Subterranean values

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Values which are only expressed in particular situations

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Social integration

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The extent to which people feel they belong to a society or social group

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Symbolic interactionism

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A theory derived from social psychology which argues that people exist in a social world based on symbols that people interpret and respond to

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Target hardening

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Reducing the physical opportunities for crime by gardening the targets of crime, eg more secure buildings

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Techniques of neutralisation

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Techniques which neutralise the blame for actions which are defined as wrong or unacceptable by society’s norms and values

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Transnational crime

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Crimes that cross national borders

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Transnational organised crime

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Transnational crime that involves an organised group

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Victim study/survey

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A study of the victims of crime, usually asking people to report the crimes that have been committed against them, or any other member of the household I’m the previous year

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Tipping

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An area goes from generally law abiding to accepting antisocial behaviour

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White collar crime

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Crimes committed by someone while at work, often against the company, eg stealing

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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When someone is labelled as deviant or criminal they the become deviant or criminal

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Altruistic suicide

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Suicide that occurs when an individual is so strongly integrated into society they take their own life out of a sense of duty

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Fatalistic suicide

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Suicide that occurs when individuals are so strongly regulated that they can see no way out of their situation other than suicide

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Egoistic suicide

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Suicide that occurs when there is little integration in society, when the ties that bind individuals into social groups are very weak

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Anomie suicide

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Suicide that results from a lack of regulation of people’s desires and expectations

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Institutional racism

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Racism that is built into the normal practices of an organisation

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Macpherson inquiry

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Sir William Macpherson led an inquiry into the events surrounding the murder of Stephen Lawrence by white racists, and the subsequent
police investigation that followed

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Cyber crime

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Illegal acts using the internet

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Genocide

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Mass killing

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