| A | B |
|---|
| deviance | recognized violation of cultural norms |
| crime | violation of society's formally enacted criminal law |
| social control | attempts by society to regulate people's thought and behavior |
| criminal justice system | formal response by police, courts, and prison officals to alleged violations of the law |
| labeling theory | assertion that deviance and conformity result, not so much from what people do, as from how others respond to those actions |
| stigma | powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity |
| medicalization of deviance | transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition |
| white-collar crime | crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations |
| corporate crime | illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf |
| organized crime | business supplying illegal goods or services |
| hate crime | criminal act against a person or a person's property by an offender motivated by racial or there bias |
| crimes against the person (violent crimes) | crimes that direct violence or the threat of violence against others |
| crimes against property (property crimes) | crimes that involve theft of property belonging to others |
| victimless crimes | violations of law in which there are no readily apparent victims |
| plea bargaining | legal negotiation in which prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea |
| retribution | act of moral vengeance by which society inflicts on the offender suffering comparable to that caused by the offense |
| deterrence | use of punishment to discourage criminality |
| rehabilitation | program for reforming the offender to prevent subsequent offenses |
| societal protection | means by which society renders offender incapable of further offenses, either temporarily thru incarceration or permanently by execution |
| criminal recidivism | subsequent offenses committed by people previously convicted of crimes |
