week 7 - crime & deviance

Question 1

what is deviance?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

what is a crime?

Answer 2

deviance that breaks a law.

Question 3

what is a law?

Answer 3

a norm enforced by government bodies.

Question 4

informal punishment vs formal punishment

Answer 4

informal: raised eyebrows, judgement, gossip.
formal: punishment from the judicial system

Question 5

social control

Answer 5

the ways that society attempts to regulate people’s thoughts, feelings, appearance, and behaviors.

Question 6

internal vs external social control

Answer 6

internal: regulates people through socialization
external: regulates people through punishments and rewards.

Question 7

Michelle Foucault on social control…

Answer 7

interested in how power rules, and how social abnormalities were created to define normality.
said that spaces could be designed to maintain social control (panopticon)

Question 8

Panopticon

Answer 8

All-seeing prison design.

1 guard tower and prisoners and guards can all see eachother.

Question 9

labelling theory

Answer 9

devience results from the response of others rather than the deviant acts

Question 10

self fufilling prophecy

Answer 10

we tend to become what we are seen as by others

Question 11

Monchalin

Answer 11

says we need to flip it so we see it as the canada problem rather than the problem of the indigenous people.