Collective conscience - (A term used by the Functionalist Durkheim) Describes the core, shared vales of society.
Consensual / Consensus - Vast majority of people share similar values.
Correlation - Statistical relationship between two or more social events.
Crime - Activities that break the law and are subject to official punishment.
Criminologists - Social scientists who study crime.
Critical criminology - (Marxists thinking) Work of criminologists influenced by Marxism.
Delinquency - Criminal or antisocial behaviour committed by young people.
Deviance - Behaviour which is different from the norms of society and often seen as bad and wrong.
Discipline - (A term used by the Functionalist Foucault) Merging the notions of formal and informal social control.
External patterns of social control - social control imposed by people on potential or actual offenders.
Formal social control - The process where laws and rules and enforced by agencies created for this purpose e.g. the police.
Informal social control - The process where individuals are encouraged to conform with appropriate values.
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