SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Siq, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Mahatma Gandhi
12 May 2013
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How we understand crime and deviance is tied to how we measure crime and deviance. The social construction of crime and deviance is tied to methodological issues. We can measure it through police statistics: however, it is limited. 1993 violence against women survey (stats canada) involved random survey of thousands of canadian women: most important conclusion: Sizeable number of canadian women had experienced violence from a current or previous partner. Police tend to focus on street crime. They avoid suite crime corporate crimes in businesses. Police data is impacted by their surveillance practices. Example: in examining the racial profiling debate in canada, Information about age, socio-economic status, involvement in gangs, drugs, criminal activities. Theoretical perspectives: structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, conflict theory, feminist theory, how would each of these theories understand prostitution, structural functionalism and emile durkheim: The societal reactions to deviance and crime that are important.
