The nature of crime, deviance and social control Flashcards

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What is a norm?

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Norms define appropriate and acceptable behaviour

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How do Downes and Rock define deviance?

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Deviance may be considered as banned or controlled behaviour which is likely to attract punishment or disapproval

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How does Pease define crime?

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Crimes are those actions deemed so disturbing to citizens or disruptive to society as to justify state intervention

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Why is Muncie critical of the idea of crime?

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He says ‘Any number of damaging events are far more serious than those that make up the crime problem’

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What varying forms can take deviance in our society?

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Open and public deviance, Secret and private deviance, Individual and collective deviance

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What is secret and private deviance?

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Deviance conducted in private which is often concealed from the wider society

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What is open and public deviance?

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Deviance conducted in public which is not concealed from the wider society

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What is individual deviance?

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The deviant behaviour of an individual

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What is collective deviance?

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The deviant behaviour of a group of people

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Plummer points out that ‘time’ is an element of deviant behaviour. What does he mean by this?

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The time that is available to the individual who wishes to commit a deviant act will affect form of deviance they engage in

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Why is deviance generally agreed to be a ‘relative concept’?

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Because crime and deviance are relative to time, place and culture

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What is formal social control?

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Institutions specifically set up to enforce social control - in particular, institutions which create and enforce the law

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What is informal social control?

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Institutions and groups which are not directly concerned with enforcing social control, yet still play an important part in controlling the behaviours of others

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