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Deviance Flashcards

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Social Control

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Ways to encourage conformity to social norms

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Victim discounting

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Reduces the seriousness of crimes directed at the lower class

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Recidivism

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A return to criminal behavior

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Innovation

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Changing the way one would normally reach a goal

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Differential association theory

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Individuals learn deviance in proportion to the number of deviant acts they are exposed to

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Deterrence

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Threatens punishment to discourage crime

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Retribution

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Makes criminals pay compensation for their acts

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Rehabilitation

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Changing or reforming a criminal through socialization

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Ritualism

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Going through the motions even though you can’t reach your goal

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Retreatism

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Giving up on goals and motivation

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Positive social sanction

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Awards, allowance, promotions

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Stigma

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Undesirable characteristic or label used by others to title someone

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Strain theory (5 parts)

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Conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion

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Labeling theory

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Explains that society creates deviance by identifying particular members of deviance

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Conformity

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Adaption to social norms

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Control theory

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Conformity to the social norms depends on the presence of strong bonds between individuals and society

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Primary deviance

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Deviance involving occasional breaking of norms

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Secondary deviance

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Deviance is a lifestyle and personal identity

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Alternatives to prison

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Prison/probation combo, community work, diversion strategy

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Social bonds (4 elements)

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Attachment, commitment, involvement and beliefs

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Cultural transmission theory

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How a culture or society learns

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White-collar crime

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Any crime committed by respectable and high status people in the course of their jobs

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Anomie

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Social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting or absent

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