Effective Environment
Subjective meanings applied to social situations and surroundings
Biography
Framework we use to make sense of our lives
Moral Entrepenurs
Individuals and groups who create and promote specific views of immoral behavior and deviant people
Diagnostic Framing
Issue is defined as problem and determine what it is and what it is about. Also tells us what emotional reaction we should have to the problem.
Prognostic Framing
Gives a solution to the problem (could be a wide range of solutions) EX:safe sex
Motivational Framing
Call to arms. Make the case of why people need to get involved. Helps address the problem to come up with a solution.
Atrocity Tales
Horror stories of sensational or brutal behavior
Denial of Responsibility
No control of behavior
Denial of Injury
No one was hurt by the activity
Denial of Victim
The victim deserved what they got.
Condemnation of Condemners
Pretend to present rule breaking behavior because they who condemned it moral deviant.
Appeal to Higher Loyalties
Argue that your responsibility is to a higher good.
Correlation
A statistical relationship between 2 or more variables.
Discredited
Those who deviant activities are known to a audience ad therefore labeled with a stigmatized identity. These individuals will try to esponge their deviant identity using destigmatization.
Purification
Morally purified self. EX: finding religion or alcoholic going to rehab.
Transcendence
Erase defective self by rising about the deviant status.
Deviance Avowal
Attempt to manage their deviant/spoiled identity by separating the stigmatized act from the deviant role. Allows to separate themselves from the typical deviant or criminal act themselves.
Role Distancing
Emphasis on difference between yourself and others who fall into deviant categories.
Discreditables
Individuals who deviant activities are not known to those likely to stigmatize them. ("Secret Deviance")
Disidentifiers
Help them conceal their deviance and provide deceptive explanations for their deviance. (a lie or cover)
Participation Observation Equals?
Validity
Survey Equals?
Reliability
Media Depiction
Looking at the certain images the perpatraters are perceived in the press
Public Opinion
How the population views and informally reacts to certain criminals and perpatraitors
Boosters
Steal for resale. They steal repeatedly. They are more aware of surveillance.
Snitches
Steal for personal use. More likely on impulse and spontaneous. Less aware of security.
Domestication of Murder
Looked at murder attacks become more brutal as relationship between the victim and murderer are closer and more emotional.
College Binge Drinker
Term used to describe episodic heavy drinkers.
Alcoholic
Medical Term.Used to describe a pattern of heavy dysfunctional drinking
Epiphanic Moment
Decisive turning point in perceptions and in ones behavior
Hitting Bottom
Term used by AA members to refer to their low points and make the association that they are alcoholic.
The 1 stage for alcoholics who don't get help...
Habitual Heavy Drinking
The 2nd stage for alcoholics who don't get help...
Extended Benders
The 3rd stage for alcoholics who don't get help...
Alcoholic Induced Illness
The 4th stage for alcoholics who don't get help...
Death
High Bottom
Accept the alcoholic label and commit themselves to AA principles. This is way before they feel any pain or loss.
Low Bottom
Alcoholics who have suffered deep pain, humiliation and or social loss.
Rape Free College Campus
sexual assault is treated seriously (expulsion) Frats discourage heavy drinking. Women are respected . LGBT treated equally
Rape Prone College Campus
not dealt with seriously. Heavy drinking is encouraged. Taking advantage of intoxicated females is accepted. Homophobia, bragging occurs, pornography is a guide to sexuality.
Etiology
Undesirable causes of heavy drinking.