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Primary Deviance is

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Deviant behaviour that is against social/cultural conventions.

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Secondary

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Deviance that’s against the law and can result in astricisation and negative labelled.

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Master label

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When secondary deviant leads a label that defines how people see you.

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4
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Crime And Deviance is R________

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Relative

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Lombroso

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Believe in genetics and physical appearances being indicative of their criminal potential.

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F_______ and i____________ social control

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Formal and informal

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Formal

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Institutions and positions in society that can enforce rules !and laws with punishment.

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Informal

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Your peers and wider society which through social pressure/expectation can keep you in line.

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The 6 types of Deviance

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Countercultural
Serial
Situational
Positive
Informal
Formal

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Countercultural

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Based on making a subculture in response to a particular movement or apparatus in society that there’s animosity towards.

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Serial

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Recidivism, consistent re-offending

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Positive

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Deviance which brings attention to a perceived injustice or flaw in society that challenges peoples beliefs and can lead to positive change.

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The 5 purposes of prison

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Retribution
Restitution
Reform
Prevention
Deterence

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Moral panic theory

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Theory by Cohen: Contemporary Mass media cam spiral agitation our of control by engineering alarmist ideas about people/events.
They often misrepresent them.

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Anomie

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Durkheim word for normlessness in society when it’s collective consciousness breaks down when the law is not seen to be upheld.

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Strain theory

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Theory by Merton: the pressure of others combined with expectations for one’s self not working out because of being held back in the system, translate to people reacting deviantly to it.

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The 5 Merton strategies

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Conformity
Retreatism
Ritualism
Innovation
Rebellion

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Hikikomori

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Japanese in origin phenomenon of young men retreating away from society in child like subsistence and isolation.