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