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  2. Deviance (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an "offender". The deviant is one to whom the label has successfully been applied; deviant behavior is behavior that people so label.

  3. Public-order crime - Wikipedia

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    Following the work of Schur (1965), the types of crime usually referred to include the sexually based offences of prostitution, paraphilia (i.e., sexual practices considered deviant), underage sex, and pornography; and the offences involving substance abuse which may or may not involve some element of public disorder or danger to the public as ...

  4. Marshall B. Clinard - Wikipedia

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    Black market, White-collar crime, Deviant behavior, International sociology Marshall Barron Clinard (November 12, 1911 – May 30, 2010) was an American sociologist who specialized in criminology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Criminological studies spanned across his entire career, from an examination of the Black Market during World War II to much more general ...

  5. Developmental theory of crime - Wikipedia

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    In many studies, the individuals displaying antisocial behavior developed in a family exhibiting "deviant behavior", in an "adverse home environment", or in something similar. [5] However most studies do not specify the exact traits that characterize the tested 'deviant' or 'adverse' environment.

  6. Self-control theory of crime - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to the general theory of crime that presents low self-control as a characteristic of an individual that influences one's behavior, the criminal spin theory [9] presents the reduction of self-control as a phenomenological process. This process can be acute, a one-time only that is not typical to the individual, or it can develop into a ...

  7. Techniques of neutralization - Wikipedia

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    Professor Volkan Topalli, at Georgia State University, in his article The Seductive Nature of Autotelic Crime: How Neutralization Theory Serves as a Boundary Condition for Understanding Hardcore Street Offending, explains that for those groups "guilt is not an issue at all because their crimes are not only considered acceptable, but attractive ...

  8. 'Embodiment of evil': Texas man sentenced for exploiting ...

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    “The deviant, criminal actions of monsters like Robert Shouse are unforgivable and leave permanent trauma for their child victims,” Special Agent in Charge Douglas Williams of the FBI Houston ...

  9. Differential association - Wikipedia

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    It grows socially easier for the individuals to commit a crime. Their inspiration is the processes of cultural transmission and construction. Sutherland had developed the idea of the "self" as a social construct , as when a person's self-image is continuously being reconstructed especially when interacting with other people.