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| The techniques and stratagies for preventing deviant behavior in any society |
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| A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm |
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| The act of going along with peers |
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| Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure |
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| Social control that is carried out causually by ordinary people through such means as laughter, smiles, and ridicule |
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| Social control that is carried out by authorized agents such as police officers, judges, or administrators |
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| Governmental social control |
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| A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to soiety's norms |
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| Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society |
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| A label used to devalue members of a certain social group |
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| A violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties |
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| The eight types of crime reported anually by the FBI: murder, rape, robery, aggravated assualt, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson |
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| A questionnaire or interview given to a sample of the population to determine whether people have been victims of crime |
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| Illegal actions commited by affluent "respectable" individuals in the course of buisness activities |
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| A term used by sociologists to describe willing exhange among adults of widely desired, but illegal, goods and services |
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| The work of a group that regulats relations among criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities, including prostitution, gambling, and the smuggling and sale of illegal drugs |
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| Crime that occurs across multiple national borders |
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| Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behvaior has become ineffective |
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| Anomie theory of deviance |
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| Merton's theory of deviance as an adpation of socailly prescribed goals or of the means governing their attainment or both |
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| A school of crimology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions |
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| A theory of deviance that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts |
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| Social Disorganization theory |
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| The theory that attributes increases in crime and deviance to the breakdown or absence of communal relationships and social institutions such as the family,school, church, and local government |
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| An approach to deviancex that attempts to explain why certian people are viewed as deviants while others engaged in the same behavior are not |
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| Societal-reaction Approach |
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| Another name for the labeling theory |
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| Differences in the way social control is exercised over different groups |
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| A fasmily in which only one parent is present to care for the children |
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| The practice of living together as a male and female couple without marrying |
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| Two unrelated adults who share a mutually caqring relationship, reside together, and agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents, basic living expences, and other common necessities |
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