Chapter 8-Sociology
Property Crime
Burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny
William Randolph Hearst
Conflict Theory
White Collar Crime
Crime that does not involve force
Innovator
accepts society's approved goals but rejects the means to achieve those goal
Howard S. Becker
applied labeling theory to the question of how deviance begins
Erving Goffman
applied social interactionist theory to the dynamics of stigma
Hate Crime
crime that deliberately targets victims bc of their demographic characteristics
Ritualist
gives up on achieving society's approved goals but accepts the means to achieve those goals
Émile Durkheim
offered a functionalist theory of the causes of suicide
Deterrence
passing a law that states that anyone caught stealing an item or items valued at $1000 or more will have one hand cut off
Incapacitation
passing a law that states that anyone committing fraud will be imprisoned for a minimum of twenty years
Rehabilitation
passing a law that states that first-time offenders for any violent crime will be submitted to a psychological evaluation and given mental health treatment
Violent Crime
rape, robbery, murder, aggravated assault
Rebel
renounces society's approved goals and means entirely and instead works toward his or her own goals using new means
Retreatist
renounces society's approved goals and means entirely and lives outside the conventional norms altogether
Robert Merton
strain theory
Erving Goffman suggests there are three main types of stigma: physical, moral, and ___________.
tribal