CJ ST 484 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Street People, Honour, Subculture
26 Dec 2017
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Southern subculture of violence: advances that an honor-based culture exists in the southern united states that is potentially conducive to violent provocation and retaliation. Black subculture of violence thesis :idea that blacks have a subcultural honor code that advocates the use of violence to defend status. Herding/honor culture: a broad honor culture where one"s reputation and self were built upon the steadfast use of violence to prove one"s worth. Lynching: an extra-legal trial (meaning that the trial was not formally conducted by the criminal justice system) and punishment of an alleged wrongdoer. Street code conventional norms of society. reject involvement in conventional social institutions. Decent people : people who are generally prosocial and abide by the. Street people : people who are antisocial and tacitly or explicitly. Code of the street or street code : subculture where blacks use violence as a means to achieve, maintain, and preserve status. General altercation homicides :public killings that occur between.
