Download Durkheim's Sociological Perspective on Crime and Anomie and more Quizzes Criminology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 anomie DEFINITION 1 condition of NORMLESSNESSa break in the social ordera lack of purpose or ideas(MERTON) TERM 2 emile durkheim DEFINITION 2 founder of sociological criminology. believed society could only be studied through a positivist approach (scientific method) TERM 3 durkheim defined social facts as... DEFINITION 3 manners of acting, thinking, and feeling external to the individual, which are invested with a coersive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him TERM 4 social facts are O____ and C____ DEFINITION 4 obligatory and coersive TERM 5 Durkhem = the transition from _____ to _____ DEFINITION 5 mechanical to organicorprimitive to evolved TERM 6 Law and crime = S______ P_____ DEFINITION 6 social phenomenon TERM 7 social solidarity DEFINITION 7 social order that is abstract and INTERNAL to CONSCIOUSNESS and that is observable via other , more visible aspects of life TERM 8 Mechanical solidarity DEFINITION 8 (pre-modern) simple societies members are very similar and share beliefs and values no individuality "the collective conscience" TERM 9 organic/ social solidarity DEFINITION 9 (modern) advanced division of labor everyone is different individualism dominates and replaces collective life TERM 10 repressive law DEFINITION 10 (mechanical) strict enforced by society inflicting and suffering TERM 21 aNOmic suicide DEFINITION 21 (NOrmal)sudden crisis in economic or familial lifeexample: divorce, immediate loss or gain of money(most would see this as a normalcause of suicide) TERM 22 INDIVIDUALized suicide DEFINITION 22 particularized characteristics either in the MENTAL STATE that leads to the act or the WAY it is achieved.characteristics: melancholy, passion, irritation. TERM 23 DEFINITION 23 anomic: not enough regulationindividualized: too much regulationaltruistic: too much integrationegotistic: not enough integration TERM 24 durkheim suggests that civilized people always consider 3 moral attitudes as duties DEFINITION 24 respect for LIFErespect for PROPERTYHONOR for others TERM 25 homicide rates tend to ____ relative to the advance of civilization DEFINITION 25 decline TERM 26 catholic countries tend to have a ____ homicide rate then protestants DEFINITION 26 higher TERM 27 1st law of penal evolution DEFINITION 27 societies are more or less advanced according to their level of social complexity to the intensity of their division of labor TERM 28 2nd law of penal evolution DEFINITION 28 (qualitative)deprivations of liberty, and of libert alone, varying in time according to the seriousness of the crime, tend to be more and more normal means of social control. TERM 29 according to merton deviant behavior is a symptom of _______ ______ DEFINITION 29 social disorganization TERM 30 according to merton crime is the result of a dysfunctional _____ DEFINITION 30 society TERM 31 MERTONs strain theory DEFINITION 31 the many forms of response that arise from the lack of fit between socially acceptable means and socially desired goals.
