Key Terms Flashcards
Primary Deviance is
Deviant behaviour that is against social/cultural conventions.
Secondary
Deviance that’s against the law and can result in astricisation and negative labelled.
Master label
When secondary deviant leads a label that defines how people see you.
Crime And Deviance is R________
Relative
Lombroso
Believe in genetics and physical appearances being indicative of their criminal potential.
F_______ and i____________ social control
Formal and informal
Formal
Institutions and positions in society that can enforce rules !and laws with punishment.
Informal
Your peers and wider society which through social pressure/expectation can keep you in line.
The 6 types of Deviance
Countercultural
Serial
Situational
Positive
Informal
Formal
Countercultural
Based on making a subculture in response to a particular movement or apparatus in society that there’s animosity towards.
Serial
Recidivism, consistent re-offending
Positive
Deviance which brings attention to a perceived injustice or flaw in society that challenges peoples beliefs and can lead to positive change.
The 5 purposes of prison
Retribution
Restitution
Reform
Prevention
Deterence
Moral panic theory
Theory by Cohen: Contemporary Mass media cam spiral agitation our of control by engineering alarmist ideas about people/events.
They often misrepresent them.
Anomie
Durkheim word for normlessness in society when it’s collective consciousness breaks down when the law is not seen to be upheld.
Strain theory
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.
The 5 Merton strategies
Conformity
Retreatism
Ritualism
Innovation
Rebellion
Hikikomori
Japanese in origin phenomenon of young men retreating away from society in child like subsistence and isolation.
