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Chapter 8: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control
What is Deviance?
Deviance: behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society
Crime: violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties
Types of Crime:
Violent Crime
Property Crime
Victimless Crime
White Collar Crime
Types of Deviance and Social Stigma
Stigma: labels society uses to devalue certain social groups
Criminal Deviance
Violation of Group Norms
Socially determined
Law and Society
Some norms are deemed so important to society they are formalized into law
Law: Governmental social control
Informal and Formal Social Control
Conformity and Obedience
Conformity: going along with peers who have no special right to direct behavior
Obedience: Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure
The Milgram Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr5cjyokVUs
Social Control
Social Control: techniques and strategies employed for preventing deviant human behavior in any society
Candid Camera:
http://vimeo.com/61349466
Sanctions: penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm
Functionalism and Deviance
Durkheim: Punishments help define acceptable behavior and contribute to society
Robert Merton: Anomie Theory of Deviance
Conformists
Ritualists
Retreatists
Rebels
Interactionist Perspective on Crime and Deviance
Cultural Transmission Theory
Differential Association
Labeling Theory
What would you do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXCCcqnY-I
Conflict Perspective
Marxist: People with power protect their own interests and define deviance to fit their own needs
Differential Justice