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 High- consensus deviance |
Behaviours or characteristics that are widely accepted as being deviant and in need of social control.
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 Low- consensus deviance |
Behaviours and characteristics about which there is considerable disagreement over whether they are deviant or not.
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 Social control |
Actions that are intended to punish, “ fix,” or prevent deviant behaviour.
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 Criminologists |
Researchers who specialize in the study of crime, which is a specific form of deviant behaviour.
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Criminology
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The academic discipline that focuses on the study of crime and those labelled as criminals, and is considered to be either a subdiscipline within sociology or a discipline related to sociology.
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 Crime |
A specific form of deviance that involves the violation of criminal law.
Crime Control Through Punishment
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Summary conviction offences
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Less serious criminal offences that are punishable by a maximum of two years in prison and/ or a $ 2,000 fine.
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Indictable conviction offences
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More serious criminal offences punishable by more than two years in prison.
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Violent crimes
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Criminal offences that involve physical harm to another person.
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 Property crimes |
Criminal offences that are directed at someone’s property, rather than at someone’s physical person.
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 Victimless crimes |
Criminal offences that involve consensual relations in the exchange of illegal goods or services.
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 White- collar crime |
Criminal offences involving the misappropriation of financial resources.
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 Corporate crime |
Criminal offences carried out by organizations or by knowledgeable employees in the course of their employment.
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 Organized crime |
Two or more persons consorting together on a continual basis to participate in illegal activities, either directly or indirectly, for gain.
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Internet crime
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Criminal offences that take place online.
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