Crime Unit - Key Words

What is meant by the term dark figure? 

• This is a stranger who lurks in an alleyway
• This is the hidden curriculum in schools
• This is the large amount of crime which is commited which goes unrecorded and unreported. 
• This is the official statistics

What is white collar crime? 

• This is when a criminal steals good shirts.
• This is crimes committed by people of high status, often middle class.
• This is crime committed by working-class people
• This is stealing from a bank

What is corporate crime? 

• This includes robbery
• This is crime committed by the BBC
• This is crime committed by large organisations to increase profits. It includes flouting health and safety laws and tax avoidance. 
• This crime committed when you are on a computer

What are informal sanctions ?

• Imprisonment and fines
• When you are banned from taking out a library book
• The subtle types of social control which occur in the informal agencies of social control such as family and peer groups. 
• A type of  punishment

Which statement(s) and example(s) best describes deviance?

• Following what is accepted in society

• Any behavior that violates social norms and is usually of sufficient severity to warrant disapproval from the majority of society.

• Farting in the middle of a restaurant

• Graduating from high school in the United States

A positive sanction includes:

• Giving a student 5 extra credit points for turning in an assignment on time

• Taking away recess

• Expelling a student

• Giving a thumbs down

The tactic that uses intimidation to prevent crime

• rehabilitation

• retribution

• social control

• deterrance

Approach to crime control that attempts to re-socialize criminals

• control theory

• deterrance

• rehabilitation

• retribution

Violation of a social norm

• anomie

• deviance

• retribution

• stigma

Crimes committed by high-status people in the course of their occupation

• anomie

• deviance

• White-Collar Crime

• stigma