sociology crime and deviance booklet 1
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- Crime and Deviance
- Crime = Any act that breaks the laws of society.
- Social control = agencies put in place to try and reduce deviance and crime.
- Deviance = Behaviour that works away from the norms and values of society e.g spitting
- The perfect amount of crime will keep society healthy and avoid anomie.
- Durkheim believes crime is inevitable and has postive functions.
- Normlessness
- 5 positive functions of crime
- Re-marking boundaries
- Media coverage
- Social bonds
- Safety valve (reduces more serious problems)
- Malfunctioning society
- 4 deviant adaptions
- Innovation - criminal behaviour as an adaption
- Retreatism - Habitual drug users & alcoholics
- Ritualism - people in dead end jobs
- Rebellion - Karl Marx and Martin Luther king
- Stand up for what they believe in, powerful.
- Rebellion - Karl Marx and Martin Luther king
- Ritualism - people in dead end jobs
- Retreatism - Habitual drug users & alcoholics
- Innovation - criminal behaviour as an adaption
- Safety valve (reduces more serious problems)
- Social bonds
- Media coverage
- Re-marking boundaries
- Durkheim believes crime is inevitable and has postive functions.
- Merton believes people engage in deviant behaviour when they are unable to achieve socially approved goals.
- Crime and Deviance
- Crime = Any act that breaks the laws of society.
- Social control = agencies put in place to try and reduce deviance and crime.
- Deviance = Behaviour that works away from the norms and values of society e.g spitting
- The perfect amount of crime will keep society healthy and avoid anomie.
- Normlessness
- 5 positive functions of crime
- Re-marking boundaries
- Media coverage
- Social bonds
- Safety valve (reduces more serious problems)
- Malfunctioning society
- 4 deviant adaptions
- Innovation - criminal behaviour as an adaption
- Retreatism - Habitual drug users & alcoholics
- Ritualism - people in dead end jobs
- Rebellion - Karl Marx and Martin Luther king
- Stand up for what they believe in, powerful.
- Rebellion - Karl Marx and Martin Luther king
- Ritualism - people in dead end jobs
- Retreatism - Habitual drug users & alcoholics
- Innovation - criminal behaviour as an adaption
- Safety valve (reduces more serious problems)
- Social bonds
- Media coverage
- Re-marking boundaries
- Crime and Deviance
- Without C & D the most slight slip would become a crime
- Coughing without covering your mouth
- Social strain prouduces frustration
- creates a pressure to deviate
- Merton calls the strain to anomie
- creates a pressure to deviate
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