Crime and deviance
- Created by: paidaishe mahachi
- Created on: 08-12-16 21:04
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- Crime and Deviance
- Crime is an illegal act which is punishable by law e.g. fraud, robbery and shoplifting.
- Formal social control
- Based on formal written rules that are set out as laws.
- Informal social control
- Based on unwritten rules and is enforced through social pressures from groups such as family and peers.
- For example parents may use negative sanctions such as taking away your phone or grouding you.
- Based on unwritten rules and is enforced through social pressures from groups such as family and peers.
- Formal social control
- Deviance means to behave in a way which does not conform to society's norms and sociol rules e.g. talking over someone.
- some but not all deviant behaviour is illegal.
- Legal deviance: behaviour seen as abnormal by most people.
- Illegal deviance: involves criminal behaviou that is punishable by state.
- Deviance is argued to be socially defined. This means it depends on how people react to it. This means that deviance is according to the context or the social setting.
- Historical evidence shows that the idea of deviance changes over time e.g. homosexuality
- Cross-cultural evidence refers to the idea that deviance varies between different cultures.
- These both show that criminal behaviour changes over time and varies between cultures e.g it was illegal to drink alcohol during prohibition in America.
- Historical evidence shows that the idea of deviance changes over time e.g. homosexuality
- These both show that criminal behaviour changes over time and varies between cultures e.g it was illegal to drink alcohol during prohibition in America.
- some but not all deviant behaviour is illegal.
- Crime is an illegal act which is punishable by law e.g. fraud, robbery and shoplifting.
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