| A | B |
|---|
| Rehabilitative | Response to deviance designed to transform the offender into a functioning member of society. |
| Restitutive | Response to deviance designed to restore the status quo that existed prior to an offense or event. Ex: Repaying the people that you stole from. |
| Social integration | The degree to which one is integrated into their social group |
| Social regulation | How many rules guide one’s daily life and what one can expect from the world on a daily basis. |
| Egoistic suicide | The need to feel as if we have affected our group or produced something for its good that will endure after we have died. |
| Altruistic suicide | A group dominated the life of that individual to such a degree that he/she feels meaningless aside from this social recognition |
| Anomic suicide | Results from the absence of social regulation. |
| Fatalistic suicide | Occurs when a person experiences too much social regulation. |
| Social control | The set of mechanisms that create normative compliance |
| Normative compliance | The act of abiding by society’s norms |
| Formal social sanctions | Rules set forth by a society. Ex: laws |
| Informal social sanctions | Unspoken rules of social life |
| Robert Merton’s Strain Theory | In an unequal society the tension or strain between socially approved goals and an individual’s ability to meet those goals through socially approved means will lead to deviance as individuals reject either the goals or the means or both. |
