crime and deviance mindmap
- Created by: angibillinge
- Created on: 21-03-14 14:43
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- Crime and Deviance
- Socially defined
- crime involves legally defined behaviour, deviance is socially defined.
- Historical evidence - suggests that what Is considered deviant can change over time.
- Cross-cultural evidence suggests that what is seen as deviant can vary between cultures.
- crime
- Illegal act that is punishable by law e.g. robbery, fraud. Could be arrested, charged and prosecuted. If they are guilty- community order, fine or imprisonment.
- Deviance
- Refers to behaviour that does not conform to a society's norms or social rules e.g. talking loudly in a library.
- Legal Deviance- behaviour seen as abnormal by most people in society but it does not break the law.
- Formal and informal social control
- Formal social control
- based on formal written rules set out in laws or in codes of conduct such as school rules.
- Informal social control
- based on unwritten or 'taken-for-granted' rules and is enforced through social pressure from groups such as families, friends or peers.
- Agencies of formal social control
- Bodies that make up formal written rules, enforce them or punish people who break them.
- Formal social control
- Explaining crime and deviance
- Inadequate socialization within families- one explanation for some young people's involvement in crime and deviance . Highlights the negative influence of home environment. New right approaches argue that children whose parents fail to take responsibility for socialising them correctly are more prone to crime.
- Sub-cultural theories- explain crime and deviance terms of the values of a particular subculture and the influence of the peer groups.
- Relative deprivation-
- Marxist explanations
- Labelling theories - explores why and how some people e.g. working class boys get labelled as deviant or criminal.
- Socially defined
- crime
- Illegal act that is punishable by law e.g. robbery, fraud. Could be arrested, charged and prosecuted. If they are guilty- community order, fine or imprisonment.
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