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| Durkheim's term for suicide in societies where people see their own happiness as unimportant. |
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| Durkheim's term for suicide in societies where rapid change is occuring. |
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| Refers to the numbers of people arrested for offences. It can be different from the offending rate. |
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| Annual victimisation survey carried out by the Home Office. |
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| Refers to the set of attitudes and behaviour developed by the police. It is a form of 'occupational culture'. |
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| Crimes committed by companies against employees or the public. |
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| A term used to describe criminologists influenced by Marxist thinking. |
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| The term used to suggest that ethnic minorities in Britain have developed a culture that resists the racist oppression of the majority society. |
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| When the action of the rule enforcers or media in response to deviance brings about an increase in the deviance. |
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| Term used by Matza to describe a state where young men are unsure exactly who they are and what their place in society is. |
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| Durkheim's term for suicide in societies where people regard their individual happiness as very important. |
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| The idea that some people are prevented from being able to get on in life and enjoy the benefits of an affluent society. |
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| Durkheim's term for suicide in extreme situations where people see their lives as having no value. |
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| Groups seen by the media as evil and a threat to the moral well-being of society. |
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| Routine, cultural ways of enforcing conformity. |
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| Famous local victimisation studies focusing on one area of North London. |
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| A theoretical approach, derived from symbolic interactionism, which looks at the consequences of having a particular social typing or label placed on an act, group or person. |
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| A development from Marxist criminology which argues that it is better to work within capitalism to improve people's lives, than to attempt wholesale social change. |
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| Forced out of the mainstream. A sociological term referring to those who are pushed to the edge of society in cultural, status and economic terms. |
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| Military model of policing |
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| Policing which is imposed upon the population. |
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| Public concern, created by the media, about the behaviour of certain groups of people who are seen as a threat to the moral order and stability of society. |
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| Crimes committed against a company by an employee. |
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| Statistics referring to how many crimes are committed, and by which groups of people. |
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| A term used by Taylor for suicide attempts where the person is not certain whether they want to die or not, and 'gambles' with their life. |
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| The act of breaking a rule. |
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| Approach to crime deriving from the right-wing theories of James Q. Wilson and emphasising 'zero tolerance'. |
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| The response to rule breaking, which usually has greater social consequences than initial rule-breaking. |
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| Where people are asked to note down the crimes they have committed over a particular period. |
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| To mark something out as bad. |
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| A distinctive set of values that provides and alternative to those of the mainstream culture. |
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| Victimisation (or victim) surveys |
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| Where people are asked what crimes have happened to them over a particular period. |
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| Crime committed by the middle and upper classes in the context of corporate life. |
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| Consensual model of policing |
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| Policing method based on the consent of the population. |
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| Officials who decide on cause of death. |
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| Illegitimate opportunity structure |
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| Refers to an alternative illegal way of life that certain groups in society have access to. |
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| In control theories, these refer to the forms of social control preventing people acting in a deviant way. |
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| Labelled in a negative way. |
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| The cheapest and least desirable zones of the city. |
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