SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Karla Homolka, Panopticon, Paul Bernardo
9 May 2018
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Deviance
• Sociologists define deviance as people, behaviour and conditions subject to social control
social control: the myriad ways in which members of social groups express their disapproval of people
and behaviour
e.g., name-calling, ostracizing, imprisoning
• behaviour that violates norms, standards of conduct or expectations of group/society
• behaviour that elicits moral condemnation
• Does not always involve breaking the law
• e.g., skippig lass
• Not always negative
• e.g., Viola Desmond
• Varies by setting
e.g., consuming alcohol for breakfast; wearing bathing suit in public
• Varies by time
e.g., smoking; doctor-assisted-suicide
Normalization of Deviance
• Edotos fist ude of the yea
• paaedis at Edotos aes
• slow lane on Whitemud is 89 km/hour
• EPL suspends borrowing privileges after 10$ is owed (overdue charge is 10 -25 cents per
day/book)
Power and Resistance Conformity and Resistance
Michael Foucault (1936-1984)
-surveillance and the panopticon
-societal rules => self-regulation
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Criminality & Demographics
behaviour that violates formal norms
• Gender:
Males more likely to be involved in criminal behaviour
• Age
Crime rates highest among those in late-teens/early-twenties
• Race and ethnicity
Aboriginal Canadians: 24% of federal inmate population
Poorer people and people from minority groups are more likely to be involved in
criminal activity-but just more likely to get caught?
• Class
+correlation between inequality and crime
Crime in Canada-
Some Important Cases
David Milgaard (1969)
Paul Bernardo (1980-1990s) & Karla Homolka (early 1990s)
• Russell Williams
Robert Latimer (1983)
The Four Purposes of Prison
• Retribution
• Incapacitation
• Deterrence
• Rehabilitation
Homicide in Canada
• Men more likely than women to be perpetrators and victims of homicide
• Perpetrators are usually known to victim
• Drugs are often involved
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Document Summary
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