| A | B |
|---|
| Crime | Law breaking behaviour |
| Deviance | Actions which go against the dominant norms of society |
| Social Control | The process by which society seeks to ensure conformity to dominant values and ways of behaving |
| Social Order | Patterned actions (or regularities) which make up the social fabric of society |
| Street Crime | A visible and often violent form of unlawful activity, which accounts for most of the fear of crime in society |
| Crimes without victims | Actions which are unlawful, even though no participants suffer any loss |
| Crimes of the powerful | The unlawful actions of those at the top of society |
| Folk Devils | Where a group become labelled in an adverse way by the media, morla commentators or the public at large. |
| Moral Panics | The situation where the public demand that something be done about a situation or group which is seen as somehow threatening. |
| Self-surveillance | Used by postmodernists to describe the way in which individuals in society police themselves |
| Anomie | the loss of moral regulation in society. Social norms no longer restrain individual behaviour |
| White-collar crime | crime committed by the middle classes in their work places, for example, embezzling funds |
| labelling theory | people become deviant after they have been labelled as rulebreakers by the police, courts. |
| posivitsts approach | suggests deviance, ill health etc; can have social rather than individual causes. Conflict theorists use positivists studies to attribute 'blame' for deviance/ill health to socially structured inequalities. |
