| A | B |
|---|
| Deviance | the violation of cultural norms |
| Social Control | attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior |
| Labeling Theory | the assertion that deviance and conformity reslut not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions |
| Hate Crime | refers to the criminal act against a person or a person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias |
| Victimless Crimes | violation of law in which there are no obvious victims |
| Retribution | an act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crime |
| Deterreance | the attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishment |
| Corporate Crimes | the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf |
| Organized Crimes | a business supply illegal goods or services |
| Stigma | a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity |
| Societal Protection | rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through imprisonment or permanently by execution |
| White-Collar Crime | Crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupation |
| Crime | the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law |
| Criminal Justice System | a formal response by police's, courts, and prison officials to alleged violations of the law |
| Plea Bargaining | a legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea |
