Deviance
Deviance is behavior that violates social norms and arouses negative social reactions.
What is deviance?
Social control refers to ways in which a society tries to prevent and sanction behavior that violates norms.
What is social control?
What is white collar crime?
White-collar crime is crime committed as part of one’s occupation.
What is strain theory?
Society causes deviance and crime when there is a disconnect between culturally approved goals and the legitimate means to achieve them.
yelling in library and getting bad stares
informal
What are two types of deviance?
Positive and negative.
Formal and Informal
what are the two types of social control?
What is Crime?
Crime is a behavior that violates official law and is punishable through formal sanctions
Differential opportunity Theory?
Delinquency stems from a lack of legitimate opportunities and the availability of illegitimate ones
committing planned murder and getting life in prison
formal
What was Emile Durkheim's perspective on deviance?
Emile Durkheim stressed that a society without deviance is impossible for the collective conscience is never strong enough to prevent all rule breaking and because Deviance serves several important functions, any given society “invents” deviance and the people who engage in the behavior are labeled deviants
If someone is awarded student of the month is it a formal or informal sanction?
Formal
what is victimless crime?
Victimless crime is illegal behavior in which people willingly engage and in which there are no unwilling victims.
What is social control theory?
Individual’s bonds to conventional social institutions keep them from violating social norms.
getting bad grades in school and your parents yell at you
informal
Who is someone who participates in deviance?
A deviant.
Who are the agents of social control?
Parents,Teachers,Police,Employers,Peer gorups
Why is the criminal justice system important?
It enforces legal code.
What is Differential Assocation theory?
Criminal behavior is learned by interacting with close friends and family
speeding in a neighborhood and getting left off the hook
informal
What is Relativity of deviance?
whether a behavior is considered deviant depends on the circumstances in which the behavior occurs and not on the behavior itself.
How has tech advanced social control?
It has made surveillance easy, so people can be contacted.
Is crime always considered deviant?
Not always.
What does labeling Theory mean?
It means, when someone is called deviant so they tend to act of deviance.
wearing inappropriate clothes to school and getting sent home
formal