Key terms (2)

Question 1

White-collar crime

Answer 1

Non-violent crime committed by middle-class people for financial gain e.g. fraud, embezzlement, bribery, identity theft

Question 2

Corporate crime

Answer 2

Crime committed by companies or businesses in pursuit of profit for the company as a whole rather than the benefit of individual employees.

Question 3

Moral panic

Answer 3

Exaggerated social reaction to deviance, creating a demand for action against it

Question 4

Juvenile delinquency

Answer 4

Crimes committed by young people below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible

Question 5

Relative deprivation

Answer 5

The feeling of having less than others with whom a legitimate comparison can be made

Question 6

Targeting

Answer 6

When police focus on a particular group of people, believing them to be more likely to commit crimes than others

Question 7

Crime prevention

Answer 7

Attempts by governments or others to reduce crime, enforce laws and maintain criminal justice

Question 8

Cybercrime

Answer 8

Crime involving the use of new technologies such as computers

Question 9

Internet crime

Answer 9

Crime involving use of the internet

Question 10

Community sentencing

Answer 10

Punishments involving non-custodial sentences such as doing work for the community

Question 11

Deterrent

Answer 11

A punishment that stops the offender from committing the offence as they are trying to avoid the punishment

Question 12

Exile

Answer 12

When the offender is made to leave their home and community as a punishment

Question 13

Judicial system

Answer 13

The system of courts that interpret and apply laws

Question 14

Rehabilitation

Answer 14

When the punishment involves work or education to help offenders realise they were wrong to commit the crime and help them resume a law-abiding life

Question 15

Ostracism

Answer 15

Punishment involving being excluded from the community