A term first used by Durkheim to describe a breakdown of social expectations and behaviour. Later used by Merton to explain reactions to situations where socially approved goals were impossible for the majority of the population to reach legitly
Anomie
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Work of criminologists influenced by Marxist thinking.
Critical criminology
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Social control that people impose upon themselves via their conscience which is largely the result of their upbringing.
Internalised forms of social control
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A term used by Durkheim to describe the core, shared values of society.
Collective conscience
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Criminal of antisocial acts committed by young people.
Delinquency
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Where the vast majority of people share similar values of society.
Consensual
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Behaviour that is different from the normal expectations of a society and is viewed as 'wrong' or 'bad'.
Deviance
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A statistical relationship between two or more events.
Correlation
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Social scientists who study crime.
Criminologists
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In control theories, the forms of social control preventing people acting in a deviant way.
Social bond
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Social control imposed by people on potential or actual offenders
External patterns of social control
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The process whereby individuals are encouraged or coerced by people they mix with into conforming to what are perceived as appropriate values.
Informal social control
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The process whereby laws and rules are enforced by agencies that have been created specifically for this purpose, such as the police.
Formal social control
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Sociological research method involving studying a group over a long period of time.
Longitudinal research
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Technologically and socially simple societies, in which people are culturally very similar.
Mechanistic societies
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Culturally and technologically complex societies, in which people are culturally different from each other.
Organic societies
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Card 2
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Work of criminologists influenced by Marxist thinking.
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Critical criminology
Card 3
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Social control that people impose upon themselves via their conscience which is largely the result of their upbringing.
Back
Card 4
Front
A term used by Durkheim to describe the core, shared values of society.
Back
Card 5
Front
Criminal of antisocial acts committed by young people.
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