Key Terms Flashcards
Primary Deviance is
Deviant behaviour that is against social/cultural conventions.
Secondary
Deviance that’s against the law and can result in astricisation and negative labelled.
Master label
When secondary deviant leads a label that defines how people see you.
Crime And Deviance is R________
Relative
Lombroso
Believe in genetics and physical appearances being indicative of their criminal potential.
F_______ and i____________ social control
Formal and informal
Formal
Institutions and positions in society that can enforce rules !and laws with punishment.
Informal
Your peers and wider society which through social pressure/expectation can keep you in line.
The 6 types of Deviance
Countercultural
Serial
Situational
Positive
Informal
Formal
Countercultural
Based on making a subculture in response to a particular movement or apparatus in society that there’s animosity towards.
Serial
Recidivism, consistent re-offending
Positive
Deviance which brings attention to a perceived injustice or flaw in society that challenges peoples beliefs and can lead to positive change.
The 5 purposes of prison
Retribution
Restitution
Reform
Prevention
Deterence
Moral panic theory
Theory by Cohen: Contemporary Mass media cam spiral agitation our of control by engineering alarmist ideas about people/events.
They often misrepresent them.
Anomie
Durkheim word for normlessness in society when it’s collective consciousness breaks down when the law is not seen to be upheld.
