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Peer Pressure Group
Pressure exerted by people close to us in age e.g. friends or workmates in the attempt to do or not do certain things. Peer group pressure does not always have to be a negative thing it could also be a positive thing
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Labelling
Rhinking of a person or a group of people in a particular way, often negativly, presuming that all of the group are a particular type of person,
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Police Targeting
Where the focus on a particular group of people in society, beleiving them to be more likely to be involved in a criminal behaviour than other groups
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Racism
A form of discrimination; treating someone differently to others in society because of their ethnicity
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Alienation
Not feeling part of the wider society or culture; feeling seperate and cut off from it
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Self-fufilling-prophecy
A way of thinking about a person or group of people, usually negative, that causes that person or group of people to behave in a way that makes a beleif reality
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Rhinking of a person or a group of people in a particular way, often negativly, presuming that all of the group are a particular type of person,

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Labelling

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Where the focus on a particular group of people in society, beleiving them to be more likely to be involved in a criminal behaviour than other groups

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A form of discrimination; treating someone differently to others in society because of their ethnicity

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Not feeling part of the wider society or culture; feeling seperate and cut off from it

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