Sociology - Crime

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Deviance
Actions that break social norms of society (manors, stealing, etc)
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Crime
Actions that break the laws of society (murder, theft, fraud, etc)
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social construction of crime and deviance
The way that is seen criminal or deviant varies from time to time and place to place
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Social order
How society is kept under control
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Informal social control
The way of making people behave before more official agencies take over
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Close-Knit communities
communities that have strong links
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Public relations
How the police get on with the community
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Community policing
The police working with local people in their community
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Zero tolerance policing
When the police are really strict about the smallest crimes to stop bigger ones from happening
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Judiciary
All the legal organisations that enforce the law
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Magistrates' court
Where the less serious cases are dealt with
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Crown court
Where the most serious cases are tried by a jury
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Moral panics
When the media exaggerates an issue and makes the public worry about it
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Youth cultures
Groups of young people with their own set of norms and values
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Folk devils
Groups that the media make people afraid of
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Deviancy amplification
When the media makes a problem worse by the way they report it
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White collar crime
Crimes that are committed by the middle classes, usually linked to their jobs
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Blue collar crime
Crimes that are committed by the working classes
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Occupational crime
Crimes that are connected to someone's job
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Corporate crime
Crimes that are committed by big businesses
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Youth crime
Crimes committed by 10-17 year olds
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Delinquency
Anti-social behaviour by young people
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Street crime
Refers to crime committed in public places
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Anti-Social behaviour
Behaviour that breaks social norms and is a nuisance to other people
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Feral youth
Young people that are not socialised
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Non-sociological theories of crime
ideas about why people become criminals based on psychology and science
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Psychological explanations
Criminal Ideas about how the mind works. Theory from Hans Eysenck
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Biological explanations
Criminal links from the way we are born. Theory from Cesare Lombroso
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
The idea that the labels people are given will turn out true
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Deviant career
The path that a person labelled a criminal follows
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Labelling
The view that people are influenced by the words others use to describe us
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Subculture
The way of life of a small group within a society
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Strain theory
The idea that pressure to succeed encourages people to turn to crime
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Cultural deprivation
When individuals lack the norms and values expected by society
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Material deprivation
When individuals lack the basic necessities for a reasonable lifestyle
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Conviction rates
How many people from certain social groups are charged and found guilty of crimes
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Self-report studies
When people are asked to say whether they have committed crimes in a questionnaire that is kept confidential
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Reported crime
Crime that the public tell police about
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Victimisation survey
A questionnaire to find out if people have been victims or crime
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Recorded crime
Crime that the police add to their official records
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Socially constructed
the statistics are a result of the choices the public and police make
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Actions that break the laws of society (murder, theft, fraud, etc)

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Crime

Card 3

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The way that is seen criminal or deviant varies from time to time and place to place

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Card 4

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How society is kept under control

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Card 5

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The way of making people behave before more official agencies take over

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Nice set of question but definition.....

Really useful

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