Sociology Final (Crime & Deviance + Race & Ethnicity Units)

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A violation of contextual, cultural, or social norms:

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deviance

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Sanctions that are officially recognized and enforced:

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formal sanctions

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Sanctions that occur in face-to-face interactions:

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informal sanctions

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Punishments for violating norms: formal sanctions, informal sanctions, negative sanctions, positive sanctions

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negative sanctions

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Rewards given for conforming to norms:

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positive sanctions

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Crimes that involve the destruction or theft of property, but do not use force or the threat of force:

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nonviolent crime

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Activities against the law that do not result in injury to any individual other than the person who engages in them:

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victimless crime

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The system tasked with supervising individuals who have been arrested for, convicted of, or sentenced for criminal offenses:

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corrections system

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A person is in jail for burglary. Two weeks after they are released, they begin burglarizing homes again and are soon back in prison. This is an example of:

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recidivism

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A plumber has stolen thousands of dollars from individuals by installing substandard plumbing fixtures. The judge says that the plumber must pay for new fixtures for these people's homes. This is an example of:

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retribution