| A | B |
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| deviance | the recognized violation of cultural norms |
| crime | the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law |
| social control | attempts by society to regulate people's thought and behavior |
| criminal justice system | a formal response by police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violation of the law |
| labeling theory | the assertion that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do, but from how others respond to those actions |
| stigma | a powerfully negative label that radically changes a person's self concept and social identity |
| retrospective laveling | the reinterpretation of a person's past in light of some present deviance |
| medicalization of deviance | the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition |
| white collar crime | crimes committed by people of high social postion in the course of their occupations |
| hate crime | a criminal act against a person or a person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias |
| crime against a person | (violent crime) crimes that involve violence or the threat of violence against others |
| crimes against property | (property crime) crime that involve theft of goods belonging to others |
| victimless crime | violation of a law in which there is no readily apparent victim |
| plea bargaining | a legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea |
| retribution | moral vengeance by which a society inflicts suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense |
| deterrence | the attempt to discourage criminality through punishment |
| rehabilitation | reformign the offender to preclude further offenses |
| societal protection | rendering an offender incapable of further offensed either temporarily through incarceration or permanently by execution |
| criminal recidivism | subsequent offensed by people previously convicted of crimes |
