“Deviance, Crime, and Social Control”
Psychopaths and sociopaths people can sometimes get marge with regular people and act normal. However, they can go to extreme cruelty. Psychopath means they have some disorders
of psychological, biological, and genetic factors. A sociopath has a disruption
of predominant social factors.
Deviance and Control: The
violation of norms is Deviance. And when a society tries to limit.
Deviance
is called Social Control. Social Control as Sanctions: The regulations and enforcement of standards are called Social Control. It enforces rules through Sanctions. Social Control as Government and Discipline: The government gives individuals training, control, and observation to improve capabilities. Social
Control as Risk Management: A model to reduce undesirable events. These
events are the assessment of probabilities of risk.
Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance: Deviance and Crime have
different explanations.
Functionalism: When a
sociologist is concerned about the various elements of society working with
functional approaches. Émile Durkheim: The Essential Nature of Deviance:
The belief that deviance is a necessary
part of society. Social Disorganization Theory: The theory believes that
crime occurs when social ties are weak and social control is absent. Robert
Merton: Strain Theory: People’s determination to deviate depends on access to
socially accepted goals. Critical Sociology: works on social and
economic factors which are the causes of crime and deviance. Crime and
Social Class: There is no clear evidence that crime happens to
underprivileged people primarily. It occurs in both poor and rich social classes.
Feminist Contributions: Criminally deviant Women are often taken as
doubly bad because they did the criminal act and broke the gender norms. Symbolic
Interactionism: This is a theoretical approach. It explains how society or
social groups view deviant behaviour. Deviance as Learned Behaviour: individuals
learn bad behaviour from their close ones. Whom they see as a model. Labelling
Theory: We all do some deviant work. But those are called the criminals, whom
society labelled Deviant.
Crime and the Law: The
legal code establishes what crime is.
What Is Crime: All deviant
work isn’t punishable, which is punishable as called Crime. Types of Crimes:
Society decides which Crimes will be severe. Crime Statistics: Canada
has been collecting and publishing Universal Crime Report Surveys. They collect
data from all police agencies in Canada. The Declining Crime Rate in Canada:
In the 1990s, crime rates started declining in Canada. Corrections:
The corrections system is most known as the Prison system. Prisons and their
Alternatives: Recently, public debate has been created on “Tough on Crime.”
They are saying less punishment works more on people to be corrected.
Conclusions: In sociology, the study of crime, deviance and social control is
essential, as well as public policy debates. Here it is difficult to think
systematically about who did the crime and why. It is also crucial to consider
why some activity is deviant and others not. A critical sociological question needs
to be answered who gets to define whom as a criminal?
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