Crime, Law, ad Regulation Flashcards
The study of crime, causation, crime prevention, and punishment and rehabilitation of offenders
criminology
Behaviours or actions that require social control and social intervention, codified (arrange) in law
crime
actions or behaviours that violate social norms and that may or may not be against the law
deviance
shared and accepted standards and social expectations
social norms
any acts that involve the violation of accepted social norms
social deviance
a person who influences or changes the creation or enforcement of a society’s moral codes
moral entrepreneur
the hypothesis that biological factors completely determine a person’s behaviour
biological determinism
the assertion that people experience strain when culturally defined goals cannot be met through socially approved means
strain theory
the assertion that individuals commit crime as a result of deviant learning environments
illegitimate opportunity theory
an environment that, as a result of laws that privilege certain groups, produces crime or criminality
criminogenic environment
criminal behaviour occurs when our association with defintions favourable to crime outweighs our defintions favourable to lawabiding behaviour
differential association theory
the assertion that once labelled as deviant, people come to accept the label as part of their identity
labelling theory
the argument that women and girls accused of criminal activity are treated more leniently by law enforcement officials as a result of the latter’s traditional, chivalrous attitude towards women
chivalry hypothesis
the requirement that no person is above the law and that state power should not be applied arbitrarily (random)
rule of law
the reaction of a group based on the false, distorted or exaggerated perception that some group or behaviour threatens the wellbeing of society
moral panic
