Deviant Behavior Test 3

Foucault Post-Structuralism

• Extreme relation

• Fragmentation of meaning

• No Truth, only truth

• We are aware that we are being judged

Internal dislocation of judicial power

Judges aren’t judging

Foucault Discipline & Punishment Effects

• Internal dislocation of judicial power

• Increased difficulty in judging

• Judges assess, diagnose, and recognize normal and abnormal 

• Claimed the honour of curing and rehabilitating

Foucault - Social workers, sociologists, and criminologists

• Specialists

• Create technical knowledge

• Get credit because of their title

Foucault - Those who control language

also have power

Foucault - If you can define what normal is you have

power

Foucault - You have to define abnormal behavior before

you can define normal behavior

The law isn’t about what’s illegal or legal, but

human nature

The norm is a combination of

• legality

• constitution

• humanity or human nature

Judges focus more on

diagnosing and curing people

The judges ability has been denatured

Their ability to judge based on their own knowledge has been taken away

Judgement is about

power

Moral panic arises in

serious times

Elements of Moral Panic

• Concern

• Hostility

• Consensus or agreement

• Disproportion

• Volatility

Elements of Moral Panic - Concern

• talking, emotion, hate crimes, backlash violence, media coverage

• Concern over the behavior of a certain group or category

Elements of Moral Panic - Hostility

• us vs them

• towards a group or category that is regarded as engaging in behavior or causing the condition in question

Elements of Moral Panic - Consensus or Agreement

• threat is real

• Must be widespread

Elements of Moral Panic - Disproportion

• exaggeration

• fabrication of stories of harm

Elements of Moral Panic - Volatility

• comes quick

• goes quick

7 Ingredients for drug scares and repressive drug laws

• Kernal of truth

• Media magnification

• Politico-moral entrepreneurs

• Professional interest groups

• Historical context of the conflict

• Linking forms of drug use to a “dangerous class.”

• Scapegoat for a wide array of public problems

Fear is

• necessary

• normal

• healthy

Fear happens first when

confronting the world before reasoning can kick in

Practice Discernment

• What are real fears

• What are not real fears

• Turn off fears and turn on discernment

The process of trust is the process of

letting go

If you are worried or scared, you

try to control everything