SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cesare Lombroso, Kai T. Erikson, Mass Surveillance
13 May 2016
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Visibility of the police policing the police. Moral panics about corrupt and violent police officers. Social constructionist vs. essentialist perspectives on what is deviant behaviour. Those more powerful can define who and what id deviant. It is difficult to argue that specific acts of deviance are essentially wrong. The primary explanations of deviance and crime in the western world until the 1700s. Some behaviours essentially wrong, according to a higher authority. Evil/deviance/crime by humans caused by temptation by an evil supernatural being (satan) The garden of eden story in the abrahamic religious tradition. 15th 17th century witches, led by satan , forcing/enticing people to commit crimes and other deviant acts. Cesare lombroso (italy, late 1800s) criminals are lower on evolutionary scale evidence found in body and head shapes. (in a society where crime was racialized) Evidence of chemical imbalances (e. g. schizophrenia) leading to some deviant (delusional) acts.
