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| "blemishes" that discredit a person's claim to "normal" identity |
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| inborn tendencies; in this context, to commit deviant acts |
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| (symbolic interactionist perspective) Sutherland's term to indicate the association with some groups results in learns as "excess of definitions" of deviance, and, by extension, in a greater likelihood that one will become deviant |
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| (conflict theory) the idea that two control system- inner controls and outer controls- work against our tendencies to deviate |
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| (SI) the view that the labels ppl are given affect their own and others' perceptions of them, thus channeling their behavior either into deviance or into conformity |
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| Techniques of Neutralization |
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ways of thinking or rationalizing that help ppl deflect society's norms
denial of responsibility. denial of injury. denial of a victim. condemnation of the condemner. appeal to higher loyalties. |
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| (functionalists) Robert Merton's term for the strain engendered when a society socializes large numbers of ppl to desire a cultural goal(success) but withholds from many the approved means of reaching that goal; adapt to crime, to attain the cultural goal. |
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| approved ways of reaching cultural goals |
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| Illegitimate Opportunity Structure |
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| opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life |
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| the proportion of released convicts who are rearrested |
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