Deviance and Crime

4. When we believe something is true, and act as if it is true, we can actually cause that thing to become true. Robert Merton's concept.
8. Being fingeprinted, or having your name published in the local paper as a criminal, for example.
10. In William Chambliss's book, these kids acted like the other kids, and still considered good, college-going students.
12. social ideas of what is right and wrong, good or bad.
14. Howard Becker's idea that if we identify someone as a "druggie," she may start to think of herself as a "druggie" and use more.
15. Association with the mob, for example; what is deviant in the society is normalized in a group.
16. social rules

1. Crime committed only by ADULTS and NO ONE is harmed, except possibly the participants.
2. These theorists see deviance as socially created
3. In William Chambliss's book, these kids partied and used alcohol like others, but were labeled as deviant.
5. These theorists see deviance as serving or functioning to reinforce moral boundaries
6. Rosenhan pretended to be ______ and was treated very poorly. He wrote “On Being Sane in Insane Places”
7. Something that violates a society's norms is
9. rape or murder is a violation of this
11. violations of these are so serious that members of a society generally think that it is disguisting to break them
13. spitting on the sidewalk is a violation of this