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Is the recognized violation of cultural norms.
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Deviance
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Is the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law.
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Crime
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Refers to attempts by society to regulate people's thought and behavior
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Social control
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Is a formal response by police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violations of the law.
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Criminal justice system
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Is the assertion that deviance and conformity may
result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to
those actions.
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Labeling theory
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Is a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity.
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Stigma
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Refers to the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition.
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Medicalization of deviance
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Is crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations.
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White-collar crime
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Is the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf.
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Corporate crime
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is a business supplying illegal goods or service.
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Organized crime
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Is a criminal act against a person or person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias.
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Hate crime
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Are crimes that direct violence or the threat of violence against others
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Crimes against the person
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Are crimes that involve theft of property belonging to others.
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Crimes against property
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are violations of law in which there are not readily apparent victims.
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Victimless crimes
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is a legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea.
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Plea bargaining
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