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FlashCards por katiehumphrey, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por katiehumphrey
quase 11 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| 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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