CC100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Industrial Revolution, Postpartum Depression, Gabriel Tarde
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Crime refers to a socially constructed concept defining certain behaviours as requiring certain behaviours as requiring formal control and social intervention. Illegal activity that may not be associated with crime and may not be pursued by the criminal justice system. Deviance refers to behaviour that violates a social norm but is not necessarily prohibited by law. Decriminalisation is the reduction or removal of criminal penalties attached to an act but without legalizing it. Consensus crimes are activities that are generally considered very harmful. Conflict crimes are activities that are not universally considered crimes although ther are legally defines as such. Social deviations are activites and worldviews that are not illegal by law but are considered deviant from societal norms. Social diversions social deviations that have become acceptable over time. Criminology is an interdisciplinary science that studies criminal behaviour, crime acusation, crime prevention and punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. The criminal justice system (cjs) consists of 3 agencies.
