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What are moral entrepreneurs?

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people who lead crusades to change the law, believing that it will benefit through to whom it is applied

2
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what are social control agencies

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agencies such as the police who help to maintain social control

3
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who identified what police saw as a typical delinquent and what was this typical delinquent?

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Piliavin and Briar - male, working class, ethnic minority, bad manner and dress, more likely to be arrested if stopped late at night

4
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what is primary deviance?

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When someone hasn’t been labelled by society as a deviant and is not part of a deviant way of life - the deviance has no effect on the individuals identity

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what is a master status?

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main identity which people judge someone by

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what is secondary deviance?

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extra deviance that the labelling has created

7
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Who described the labelling process as a deviant career and what is a deviant career?

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Becker- the labelling process is completed when a person accepts the label as their identity

8
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what is a deviancy amplification spiral?

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an exaggerated cycle of reporting, which results in mote social control, which in turn makes it seem like crime rates are increasing

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what are moral panics?

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News stories that are over exaggerated by the media

10
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what is disintegrative shaming?

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the crime and the criminal is labelled as bad and the offender is excluded from society

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what is reintegrative shaming?

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when the deviant act is labelled but the person who committed the act is not labelled - ‘he has done a bad thing’ not ‘he is a bad person’