Crime and Deviance- Key Words

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Relative Derprivation
Growing up in a poor environment and lacking certain resources that the majority of others in society have.
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Youth Crime
Crime committed by children and teenagers
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Crime
Breaks the laws of society and has gone against the norms and values
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White collar crime
Crimes committed by people of higher and middle class. (usually through work)
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Deviance
Something that doesnt break the laws but is frowned upon and breaks the norms and values of society
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Blue collar crime
Crimes committed by people of lower class
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Conformity
Blending in to society and following the norms and values
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Delinquency
Deviance committed by youth
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Informal social control
Control given out by parents, friends and school to remind people about norms and values
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Formal control
Control given out by authority figures to remind people of norms and values and punishes
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Subculture
Groups that develops their own norms and values which may differ to the norms and values of society
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Socialisation
The process of learning norms and values
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Peer pressure
Criminal behaviour in terms of the influence of peer groups
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Dark figure of crime
Types of crimes that dont appear in statisics because they are hidden. They are not recorded by police.
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One broken window theory
If one broken window goes un-noticed and nobody deals with it, crime will continue and the neighbourhood will go down hill
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Communities
Members of society united together. A group of people who live in the same area
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Anomie
Normlessness. When people dont fit with societies norms and values
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Labelling
A label is a tag which is often attached to an individual or group
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Crime committed by children and teenagers

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Youth Crime

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Breaks the laws of society and has gone against the norms and values

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Card 4

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Crimes committed by people of higher and middle class. (usually through work)

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Card 5

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Something that doesnt break the laws but is frowned upon and breaks the norms and values of society

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