Deviance
Any Behavior that violates social norms and arouses negative social reactions.
What is deviance?
This refers to ways in which a society tries to prevent and sanction behavior that violates norms.
What is social control?
Which Crimes are committed as part of one's occupations
White-collar crime
Society causes deviance and crime when there is a disconnect between culturally approved goals and the legitimate means to achieve them.
What is strain theory?
yelling in library and getting bad stares
informal
What are two types of deviance?
Positive and negative.
What are the two types of social control?
Formal and Informal
behavior that violates official law and is punishable through formal sanctions
Crime
Delinquency stems from a lack of legitimate opportunities and the availability of illegitimate ones
Differential opportunity Theory?
Committing Murder
formal
This person stressed that a society without deviance is impossible and necessary
Emile Durkheim
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.
Individual’s bonds to conventional social institutions keep them from violating social norms.
What is social control theory?
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
What is the purpose of the criminal justice system?
enforces legal code.
Criminal behavior is learned by interacting with close friends and family
What is Differential Assocation theory?
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.
It means, when someone is called deviant so they tend to act of deviance.
What does labeling Theory mean?
wearing inappropriate clothes to school and getting sent home
formal