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Deviance
Social Control, Deviance, and Crime Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sanctions | rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms |
| social control | enforcing norms through either internal or external means |
| deviance | behavior that violates significant social norms |
| stigma | mark or social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society |
| strain theory | views deviance as the natural outgrowth of the values, norms, and structure of society |
| anomie | situation that arises when the norms of society are unclear or no longer apply |
| crime | any act labeled as such by those in authority and prohibited by law |
| violent crime | murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault |
| property crime | stealing or intentionally damaging someone's property |
| victimless crime | prostitution, illegal gambling, illegal drug use, vagrancy |
| organized crime | control of some vice or legitimate business through violence or threat of violence |
| white collar crime | offenses committed by people of high social status in the course of their professional lives |
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Mrs. Wells
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