Crime and deviance

is any behavior, belief, or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs.

For example, a person may engage in intentional deviance by drinking too much or committing a bank robbery, or participate in inadvertent deviance by losing money in a casino or laughing at a funeral.

Deviance and it is a social construct

illegal acts committed by corporate employees on behalf of corporation and with its support 

Example: include antitrust violations; tax evasion; misrepresentations in advertising; infringements on patents, copyrights, and trademarks; price-fixing; and financial fraud. 

Corporate Crime

-Comprises illegal activities committed by people in the course of their employemnt or financial affairs. 

example: tax evasion,embezzlement,insider trading

White collar crime

if there no complaining victim if all members engaging in the crime are consenting adults

Victimless Crime

refers to illegal or unethical acts involving the usurpation of power by government officials or illegal/unethical acts perpetrated against the government by outsiders seeking to make a political statement, undermine the government, or overthrow it. 

For example, Edward Snowden, formerly a U.S. computer professional, has been charged with theft of government property and unauthorized communication of national defense information

Political crime

refers to the systematic practices that social groups develop in order to encourage conformity to norms, rules, and laws and to discourage deviance.

Social controls

based on internalized social norms.

Indirect control

Based on sanctions and what are 4

Direct control. Informal positive, informal negative, formal positive,formal negative

seeks to return offenders to the community as law abiding citizens by providing therapy or educational training. 

rehabilitation

imposes a penalty on the offender and is based on the premise that the punishment should fit the crime: The greater the degree of social harm, the more the offender should be punished. 

- For example, an individual who murders should be punished more severely than one who shoplifts 

Retribution

seeks to reduce criminal activity by instilling a fear of punishment in the general public. 

Deterrence

Merton’s adaptation

Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion

Purses them through culturally approved means

Conformity

Adopts disapproved means of achieving them

innovation

Abadon’s society goal but continues to conform to approved means

ritualism

Abandons both approved goals and the approved means to achieve them

retreatism

Challenges both the approved goals and the approved to achieve them.

Rebellion

If somebody who experienced incarceration was incarcerated again

Recidivism

Our idea about what is our categories our conceptualization they are made by people

Social contruction of deviance

A functionalist would say about crime and deviance. conflict theorist would say about crime and deviance. symbolic interactionist would say about crime and deviance. So remember, symbolic interaction, you learn from what's around you. learn your symbols, meanings, and norms from the people around you.

Theories of deviance

Control people’s behavior might be something like gossip, condemnation, sort of minor reprimands from people around you.

informal negative

Some type of like positive intention or positive affirmations from the people around you that would work to shape your behavior.

informal positive

Some kind of public honor award or ways of shaping behaviors through some type of positive attributes that is also wrapped up in some institution dealt out by an authority figure

Formal positive

Anytime a response it more serious

formal negative