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Frage | Antworten |
deviance | Actions that break norms and values of society or group |
crime | An action that is against the law |
cross cultural deviance | Something that is deviant in some cultures but not in others |
situational deviance | Something that is deviant only in certain situations |
historical deviance | Something that is deviant only at a certain time |
conformity | Following the rules |
functions of punishment | • To prevent crime • To deter others from committing crime • To reform offenders • To punish criminals • To keep the public safe |
ASBO | Individual social orders, eg banning someone from an area |
community service | Offenders ordered to work in a community, eg clearing graffiti |
corporal punishment | Physical punishment eg whipping |
curfews | Often part of an ASBO, limiting the time the offender may be allowed out in public |
death penalty | Known as capital punishment, illegal in Britain |
electronic tagging | Attaching a tag to the offender to control and monitor where they are |
fines | Financial punishment |
mental health orders | Granted if the crime is due to mental illness |
prison sentencing | A loss of freedom for a set amount of time |
probation | Being offered supervision instead of prison to ensure that offending stops |
dark figure of crime | refers to crime that goes unrecorded |
delinquency | The undesirable, antisocial behaviour of young people |
police targeting | Where the police focus on a particular group of people in society, believing them to be more likely to be involved in criminal behaviour than other groups |
discrimination | Treating people differently because of their social characteristics e.g. not giving someone a job because she is female |
racism | a form of discrimination; treating someone differently to others in society because of their ethnicity |
alienation | Not feeling part of the wider society or culture; feeling separate and cut off from it |
self fulfilling prophecy | A way of thinking about a person or group of people, usually negative, that causes that person or group of people to behave in a way that makes the belief reality |
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