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Deviance and Crime Flashcards

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Deviance

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Occurs when someone departs from a norm and evokes a negative reaction from others

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Crime

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Deviance that breaks the law

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Law

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A norm stipulated and enforced by government bodies

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Informal Punishment

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Involves a mild sanction that is imposed during face- to-face interaction, not by the judicial system (e.g. timeout, no iPad)

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Formal Punishment

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Takes place when the judicial system or any kind of formal institution penalizes someone for breaking a law

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What are the Three Criteria in which deviance and crime vary?

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  1. Severity of social response
  2. Perceived harmfulness
  3. Degree of public agreement
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What are the three ways of reporting crime?

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Uniform crime stats, self-reports, and victimization reports

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What is the main source of crime statistics?

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Uniform crime reports

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What are the two main shortcomings of police-reported crimes?

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  1. Much crime is not reported by the police (especially with victimless crimes)
  2. Authorities and the wider public decide which criminal acts to report and which to ignore
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Victimless Crime

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Crime committed by one or two people where basically no one is being victimized, but a law is still being broken

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Self-Report Survey

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Respondents are asked to report their involvement in criminal activities, either as PERPETRATORS or sometimes as victims

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Victimization Survey

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Surveys in which people are asked whether they have been victims of a crime

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What are the Reasons for Declining crime rates?

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▪ Better trained police forces
▪ Smaller young male population
▪ Good economies
▪ Legal abortion?

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What gender is more likely to commit crime?

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Male, especially young males

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What is there an over representation of in Canadian Prisons?

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Indigenous peoples, black people

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Factors in over representation

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  1. Poverty
  2. Tend to commit more visible Street Crimes
  3. Discrimination by criminal justice system
  4. Weakened social control over community members due to Western culture’s disruption of social life in Indigenous communities
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What is the Symbolic Interactionist approach to deviance and crime?

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People learn and label deviant and criminal behaviour when they interact with others

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Labelling Theory

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Deviant and criminal role not automatically applied, only when others in a group label it such

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What is the Functionalist Explanation for deviance and crime?

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That Social dysfunction leads to criminal behavior

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What did Durkheim claim?

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That crime is beneficial to society.

Gives people a chance to react, further knowing what deviance looks like, thus making society better

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Strain Theory

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People turn to deviance because society lets them down

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How does Strain result?

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When a culture teaches people the value of material success and society fails to provide enough legitimate opportunities for everyone to succeed

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Conformity

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Acceptance of Cultural goals and the institutionalized means of achieving them

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Innovation

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Acceptance of the cultural goal, but rejecting the institutionalized means

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Ritualism

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Rejecting the cultural goals, but accepting the institutionalized means

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Retreatism

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Rejecting both the cultural goals and the institutionalized means

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Rebellion

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New goals and new means of doing such

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What do deviant subcultures have?

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Strong internal norms and are strict conformists of their own subculture

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What do Criminal subcultures do?

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Shift blame for deviance
(deny personal responsibility, the wrongfulness of the act, denouncing others..)

30
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How does the relationship between race and crime differ despite what functionalists claim?

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That the relationship between race and crime weaker. Functionalists and official statistics exaggerate the connection between crime and class

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Conflict Theory Approach to deviance and crime

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Power and privilege maintained by the rich and powerful defining deviance, and using their power to avoid being called a criminal

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Control Theory

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Crime can pay in ample rewards, so people only refrain because of social controls

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Control theory of crime: Four Types of social control

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  1. Social attachments to respectable role models.
  2. Legitimate opportunities for education and a good job.
  3. Involvements in conventional institutions.
  4. Beliefs in traditional values and morality
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Social Control

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Ways in which a social system attempts to regulate people’s thoughts, feelings, appearance and behaviour

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Internal Social Control

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Regulates people through socialization and shapes people’s minds so they come to regard deviant actions as undesirable

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External Social Control

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Regulates people by imposing punishments and offering rewards

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Panopticon

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If you think you are being observed, you will enforce the rules on yourself, obeying the social norms out of fear of punishment.

Total surveillance of society = passive control of society

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The Medicalization of Deviance

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Growth in the number of behaviors described as mental disorders. What used to be defined as wilful deviance is now regarded as involuntary; normal part of being human

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How are Prisons Agents of socialization?

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Prisoners learn to be more criminal in prison from other, more experienced criminals

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What are the rationales of incarceration?

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  1. Opportunity for rehabilitation
  2. Deterrence
  3. Revenge for illegal acts
  4. Incapacitation
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Moral Panics

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Overreaction to events in society. Can lead to a CRACKDOWN or INCREASE in the SEVERITY of punishment

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Distortion of crime by the media

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  1. Level of coverage (exaggeration of criminal activity)
  2. Type of Coverage (more than half of crime stories relate to violent offences, which is several times the actual prevalence
  3. Nature of Coverage (gives the opposite impression of certain types of crimes)
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What does imprisonment lead to?

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Higher rates of recidivism - the rate of criminals reoffending and returning to prison

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Two main reforms to our current prison regime:

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  1. Lower recidivism rates
  2. Attempt to reduce rather than increase the number of incarcerated offenders

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