Crime and Deviance: Social control, deviance and crime

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What are the main processes in encouraging people to conform?
Social control and socialisation.
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What do the main processes aim to do?
Avoid society collapsing into chaos and disorder to maintain social order.
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How is social order achieved?
A range of positive and negative sanctions which are applied to both formal and informal agencies of control.
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Give examples or formal agencies of control.
The police, the military, courts, prisons
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Give examples of informal agencies of control
Education, the family, religion, the workplace.
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Define deviance
Rule breaking behaviour which fails to conform to the norms and expectations of a particular society or social group
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What do the main processes aim to do?

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Avoid society collapsing into chaos and disorder to maintain social order.

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How is social order achieved?

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Give examples or formal agencies of control.

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Give examples of informal agencies of control

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