CRM 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Juvenile Delinquency, Deviancy Amplification Spiral, George Herbert Mead
5 Apr 2013
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Intellectual heritage (george herbert mead, frank tannenbaum) Emergence of societal reaction perspective (1950s and 1960s) Howard becker***(study on works by john kitsuse and dl rosenhan, monograph & typology) Midterm next week: units 4 7 (13 short answer, 24 multiple choice/50 marks, 25%) They are never and cannot be inherently evil, because they are a result of social process. Transgressive behaviour, deviancy, and criminal behaviour are categories and ever-changing, because they are social constructs (we create them by creating norms and codifying laws) Deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an offender. The deviant is one to whom the label has successfully been applied; deviant behavior is behavior that people so label. howard becker. Deviance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder jl simmons (deviance is individually assessed, and does not have an objective existence) culture (such as mass media, etc.
