SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Cybercrime, Youth Criminal Justice Act, Labeling Theory
8 Dec 2015
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Soc 100 lecture 34 deviance & social control. Explaining deviance: conflict theory: contends that the entire justice system of canada treats suspects differently on the basis of their racial, ethnic, or social class background. Agents of social control and other powerful groups can impose their own self-serving definitions of deviance on the general public. Labelling theory and conflict theory overlap in that they talk about the power over people. Social class influences one"s interaction with the criminal justice system. Early women who deviated were seen as not as evolved which then morphed into the whore versus virgin type of women. Crime: violation of criminal law, for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties: laws divide crimes into categories based on: Young offenders in canada are prosecuted by youth criminal. Justice act (ycja): the ycja was established because children do not have the same capacity to make decisions as adults.
