Vocabulary,+Search+Terms

= __Vocabulary Terms__ : =

- the recognized violation of cultural norms; differeing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society
 * __Deviance__**

__**Crime**__ - the violation of society's formally enacted criminal law

__**Social Control**__ - attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behaviors

__**Ciminal Justice System**__ - a formal response by police, courts and prison officials to alleged violations of the law

__**Critical Evaluation**__ - biological theories that explain crime in terms of rare physical traits, explain only a small proportion of all crimes

__**Labeling Theory**__ - the idea that deviance and conformity result not only from what people do but from how others respond to to those actions

__**Stigma**__ - a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity

__**Medicalization Of Deviance**__ - the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition

- crime committed by people of high social position in the coarse of their occupations
 * __White-Collar Crime__**

__**Corporate Crime**__ - the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf

__**Organized Crime**__ - a business supplying illegal goods or services

__**Hate Crime**__ - a criminal act against a person or person;s property by an offender motivated by racial or other basis

- crimes that direct violence or the threat of violence against others
 * __Crimes Against the Person (Violent Crimes)__**

__**Crimes Against Poverty (Property Crimes)**__ - crimes that involve theft or property belongings to others

__**Victimless Crimes**__ - violations of law in which there are no readily apparent victims

__**Plea Bargaining**__ - a legal negotiation in which a prosecuter reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea

__**Retribution**__ - an act of moral vengeance by which society inflicts suffering on the offender comparable to that caused by the offense

__**Deterrence**__ - the attempt to discourage criminality through punishment

__**Rehabilitation**__ - a program for reforming the offender to prevent subsequent offenses

__**Societal Projection**__ - a means by which society renders an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through intcarceration or permanently by execution

- subsequent offenses by people previously convicted of crimes
 * __Criminal Recidivism__**