5 Deviance

• Types of crime

  • Violent crime

  • Non-violent crime

  • Street Crime

  • Corporate crime

  • Victimless crime

  • Hate crime

    • Discrimination

• Crime statistics (in PH)

  • Sources of crime data

  • PNP - CIRAS

  • PSA -PSCCS

  • Types of crimes

    • Index crimes

    • Non-index crimes

  • Recent trends

    • 8% decrease in index crimes

    • NCR & CALABARZON

• Corrections

  • Correction system

    • More commonly known as the prison system, is tasked with supervising individuals who have been arrested, convicted, and sentenced for a criminal offence

    • The Philippine corrections system oversees individuals arrested, convicted, and sentenced for criminal offenses

  • Alternatives to incarceration

    • To address overcrowding and promote rehabilitation, th

Deviant is cause by

Deviancy is pushed

Frequent exposure to deviancy will affect one's perception of deviancy; Frequency of interaction

• Social control

  • Techniques and strategies employed for preventing deviant human behavior in any society

  • Parents, Peer groups, Government, Bureaucratic org

• Sanctions

  • Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm

  • If we fail to live up to the norm we may face informal sanctions (fear and ridicule) or formal sanctions (jail sentences or fines)

• Conformity and Obedience

  • Reflecting in the milgram experiment

    • 2/3s of the participants fell

• Informal and formal social control

  • Informal social control

    • Used to casually to enforce norms

    • Smiles, laughter, raised eyebrows, ridicule

  • Formal social control

    • Carried out by authorized agents

    • Informal social control can undermine formal social control, encouraging people to violate social norms

• Functionalist perspective

• Merton's deviance theory

  • Conformist

  • Retreatist

  • Innovator

  • Ritualist

  • Rebel

• Interactionist perspective

  • Cultural transmission

    • Cultural transmission: humans learn how to behave in social situations, whether properly or improperly

    • Differential association: process through which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to the violation of rules

    • Social disorganization theory: increases in crime and deviance attributed to absence

• Labeling perspective

  • Labeling theory: attempts to explain why some people are viewed as deviants while others are not; also known as societal-reaction approach

    • Societal-reaction approach: another term for labeling theory, designed to remind us that the response to an act, not the behavior, determines deviance

• Conflict

• Feminist