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