The Most Evil Children in the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQj1S0lcP64

Introduction to Crime and Deviance

Learning ObjectivesTo be able to:-

• Understand the difference between crime and deviance

Date:

What is a crime and what is law?

• A crime is an action which breaks the law,

• Laws are enforced by agencies of social control, such as the police.

• Add these terms to your glossary (separate pdf)

Cat in Coventry – is this a crime?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cat+in+coventry

Examples of deviance: Why?Add deviance to your glossary

The information on your worksheet (separate pdf) is from the exam specification.

It outlines everything you need to know for this section of the course.

1. Underline key-words, make a list of them in your exercise book

2. Highlight key-thinkers, sociologists you need to know about.

• Actions and behaviours that go against norms of behaviour are called

‘deviance’

• Behaviours become crimes through a process of social construction. The

same behaviour may be considered criminal in one society and an act of

honour in another society or in the same society at a different time.

• The legal status of a behaviour—whether it is defined as a crime—lies not

in the content of the behaviour itself but in the social response to the

behaviour or to the persons who engage in it.

• Most crimes are forms of deviance, but not all deviance is criminal.

Key Information

Can you think of a deviant behaviour that isn’t criminal?

Can you think of a crime that isn’t considered deviant?

Match the key-word with their definitions!

Norms

Conformity

Deviance

Crime

Social Construction

Judiciary

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The part of a country's government that is responsible for its legal system and which consists of all the judges in the country's courts of law

When a behaviour goes against norms

The idea that meaning and value is not an objective fact but created through communication and social interaction.

Social expectations that guide behaviour

When people go along with norms

An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by law

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B

C

D

E

F

Aliens have landed! The first question they ask you is

“Why do humans label some things ‘normal’ and others

‘deviant’?”

Write your answer on a post-it note and put it on the

board…

Tasks (separate pdf)

1. Read through the text, completing the tables as you go.2. Underline or highlight key parts of the text3. Check the meaning of key words and add them to your glossary4. Summarise the text using a mind-map or bullet-points

Plenary – True or False

• Crime and deviance are the same thing

• Some acts may be criminal and deviant

• Some acts may be criminal but not seen as deviant

• Acts which are against the law are against the law everywhere

• Deviance is always against the law

• Deviant acts break social norms