2.1.1 - Compare criminal behaviour and deviance

• Social definition of crime;

  • A wrong against the community
  • Crimes go against societal normalities
• Legal definitions of crime;

  • Can be punished by the legal system
  • Must have actus reus and mens rea
• Non-court sanction examples are cautions, conditional cautions, penalty notices
• Court sanction examples are custodial sentences, community sentences, fines, or discharge
• Caution


  Administered by police for minor crimes that offenders admit to and don't count as a criminal conviction
• Conditional caution


  Cautions given by police on conditions that the offender must follow
• Penalty notice


  Given for minor criminal offences
• Custodial sentences


  Offender immediately sent to prison
• Mandatory life sentence


  Sentence of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole
• Discretionatory life sentence


  Life imprisonment with chance of parole
• Fixed term sentence


  A sentence with a set release date for the offender
• Intermediate prison sentence


  No set date of release, only a minimum sentence to be served before consideration to be released
• Mens rea


  Guilty act
• Actus reas

  Guilty act
• Offenders have to be over 18 to be given a penally notice
• Combination order


  A sentences of the court that combines a probation order and a community service order