SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Keystone Pipeline, Environmental Sociology, Social Stigma
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You should understand deviance: the violating of a social norm. De nition sense as the breaking of laws. Crime control: physical punishment to surveillance producing disciplinary power . Everywhere in society not just in prisons. Prisons established panopticon: central tower with all cells around for observational advantage (disciplines the inmates themselves) Punishment looks kind but not behind closed doors (in privacy) Our society generates conditions were crime is economic rational and pro table through drug trades. People can make a living off selling drugs and impression people for selling drugs who will still continue to sell them. Know the facts on who goes to jail and what the trend is over time. 16. 1 million current or former felons with african american males having the highest rate of incarceration (1 in 3) 60% for african americans without an education. Non whites get longer sentences for drugs. Us rate of incarceration jumped drastically in 1973 and continued to rise rapidly.
