SOC101 Ch 6

all violent crime, certain property crimes, and certain morals crimes.

illegal acts committed by corporate employees on behalf of the corporation and with its support.

behavior that violates criminal law and is punishable with fines, jail terms, and other sanctions.

the systematic study of crime and the criminal justice system, including the police, courts, and prisons.

any behavior, belief, or condition that violates cultural norms.

the proposition that individuals have a greater tendency to deviate from societal norms when they frequently associate with persons who are more favorable toward deviance than conformity.

circumstances that provide an opportunity for people to acquire through illegitimate activities what they cannot achieve through legitimate channels.

the proposition that deviants are those people who have been successfully labeled as such by others.

illegal activities committed by people in the course of their employment or financial affairs.

a business operation that supplies illegal goods and services for profit.

illegal or unethical acts involving the usurpation of power by government officials, or illegal/unethical acts perpetrated against the government by outsiders seeking to make a political statement, undermine the government, or overthrow it.

the initial act of rule-breaking.

any action designed to deprive a person of things of value (including liberty) because of some offense the person is thought to have committed.

the process that occurs when a person who has been labeled a deviant accepts that new identity and continues the deviant behavior.

the proposition that the probability of deviant behavior increases when a person’s ties to society are weakened or broken.

systematic practices developed by social groups to encourage conformity and to discourage deviance.

According to strain theory, people feel strain when they are exposed to cultural goals that they are unable to obtain because they do not have access to culturally approved means of achieving those goals.

the calculated unlawful use of physical force or threats of violence against persons or property in order to intimidate or coerce a government, organization, or individual for the purpose of gaining some political, religious, economic, or social objective.

deviance that occurs when a person who has been labeled a deviant seeks to normalize the behavior by relabeling it as nondeviant.