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11 Cards in this Set
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Deviance |
goes against the norms of society and evokes and negative reaction from others |
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Crime |
Deviance that is against the law |
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Sanctions |
Penalties, sometimes used to discipline or punish |
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Informal punishment |
mild sanction imposed during face-to-face interaction, NOT by an institution |
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Formal Punishment |
institution (justice system) penalizes someone for breaking a regulation |
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Stigma |
set of negative beliefs that society or a group of people have against something/someone |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy |
People internalize what others expect of them and that is how it comes to be |
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Travis Hirschi |
the degree to which people are prevented from violating laws and norms accounts for variations in crime and deviance (i.e. more control = less crime, less control = more crime) |
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Cohen’s Findings |
People would obey rules of their subculture but would ignore the rules of the general culture |
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Crime Rate |
Going down consistently Possible reasons: -police doing better job -less men in teens or early twenties -Economic growth |
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Structural Inequalities in Criminal Justice System
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-Overrepresentation of aboriginals in the justice system |