Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

Deviance

behavior that violates standards of conduct or expectations in group or society (not always bad, wrong, or illegal)

Conformity

going along with peers who have no special right to direct behavior.

Ritualist

goes through the means but abandons the goals.

Innovationist

goes for the goal with unacceptable means (criminals)

Control Theory

suggests our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to societys norms.

Retreatist

withdraws from the means and the goal.

Sanction

reward or punishment for conduct concerning social norm (stop /prevent behavior or rewarding it)

Professional criminal

person pursing crime as a day- to- day occupation (burglary, safecracking, etc .)

Anomie

state of normlessness typically during social change and disorder.

Cultural transmission theory

learned behavior based on social institutions (can be deviance or proper behavior)

Functionalist

rules /laws are needed for conformity and survival.

Rebel

feels alienated from both the goal and the means.

violation of rules

Differential association- describes process through which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to ________.

Obedience

compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.

Cybercrime

illegal activity conducted through computer soft /hardware.

Conflict

________ Theorists- functioning of society will benefit powerful and disadvantage other groups.

Stigma

labels society uses to devalues members of certain social groups.

disorganization theory

Social ________- increases in crime can be attributed to communal relationship and social institutions and the absence /breakdown of it.

Crime

violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties (deviance)

Differential justice

difference in way social control is exercised over different groups.

Victimless crime

________- willing exchange among adults of widely desired but illegal goods and services.

Informal Social Control

________- casually enforced norms by family and peer groups.

Conformist

________- nondeviant, accepts both the means and the goal.

Deviance

behavior that violates standards of conduct or expectations in group or society (not always bad, wrong, or illegal)

Stigma

labels society uses to devalues members of certain social groups

Social Control

techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior

Informal Social Control

casually enforced norms by family and peer groups

Formal Social Control

norms enforced by authorized agents such as police officers

Sanction

reward or punishment for conduct concerning social norm (stop/prevent behavior or rewarding it)

Functionalist

rules/laws are needed for conformity and survival

Conflict Theorists

functioning of society will benefit powerful and disadvantage other groups

Conformity

going along with peers who have no special right to direct behavior

Obedience

compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure

Control Theory

suggests our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to societys norms

Anomie

state of normlessness typically during social change and disorder

Conformist

nondeviant, accepts both the means and the goal

Retreatist

withdraws from the means and the goal

Innovationist

goes for the goal with unacceptable means (criminals)

Ritualist

goes through the means but abandons the goals

Rebel

feels alienated from both the goal and the means

Cultural transmission theory

learned behavior based on social institutions (can be deviance or proper behavior)

Differential association

describes process through which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to violation of rules

Social disorganization theory

increases in crime can be attributed to communal relationship and social institutions and the absence/breakdown of it

Labeling theory

attempts to explain why some people are labeled

Differential justice

difference in way social control is exercised over different groups

Crime

violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties (deviance)

Victimless crime

willing exchange among adults of widely desired but illegal goods and services

Professional criminal

person pursing crime as a day-to-day occupation (burglary, safecracking, etc.)

Organized Crime

crime in a business like a bureaucratization

White Collar Crime

illegal acts committed in a business by respectable people

Cybercrime

illegal activity conducted through computer soft/hardware

Corporate crime

act by corporation punishable by the government

Hate crime

crimes motivated by race, religion, ethnic group, sexuality, etc