SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Victimless Crime, Hate Crime, Corporate Crime
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Crime: the violation of society"s formally enacted criminal law. Social control: attempts by society to regulate people"s thoughts and behaviours. Criminal justice system: a formal response by police, courts and prison officials to alleged violations of the law. Isbelling theory: the idea that deviance and conformity results not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions. Stigma: a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person"s self-concept and social identity. Medicalization of deviance: the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition. White-collar crime: crime committed by persons of high social positions in the course of their occupation. Corporate crime: the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf. Organized crime: a business that supplies illegal good or services. Hate crime: a criminal act against a person or a person"s property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias.