Key words

• Define deviance amplification

  Where the problem of crime gets worse because people with a criminal record are marginalised which makes it impossible for them to reform their behaviour
• Define marginalisation

  The act of treating a person or group as though they are insignificant or of lesser importance
• Define innovate

  This refers to when criminals go a different way to achieve a goal - use crime instead of abiding by societies values and norms
• Define moral panic

  Public anxiety or alarm in response to a problem regarded as a threat or danger to society
• Status frustration

  When someone in frustrated as they can’t meet the expectations society has put on them
• Define hypodermic syringe effect

  The media can have a drug like effect on people, taking over them to behave in unacceptable ways