A | B |
Street crime | Crime committed in public |
White-collar crime | Crime committed by professionals against a corporation, agency, or other business and includes infractions such as tax evasion |
Corporate crime | A particular type of white-collar crime committed by CEOs and other executives of a corporation. |
Panopticon | A circular prison design that allows a guard to all the prisoners without them knowing whether or not they are being watched. The guard is typically housed in an inner ring while the prisoners are housed in the outer ring. |
Stigma | A negative social label that devalues a person’s identity |
Primary deviance | The original act that causes one to be labeled a deviant. |
Rebel | Create new goals and new means of achieving them |
Howard Becker’s Labeling Theory | Deviance is a consequence of external judgments, or labels, which modify the individual’s self-concept and change the way others respond to the labeled person. |
Conformist | + goals, +means |
Ritualist | -goals, +means |
Innovator | +goals, -means |
Retreatist | -goals, -means |