SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Official Statistics, Visible Minority, Arson

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

Document Summary

If people respond to primary deviance by stigmatizing a person, secondary deviance and a deviant career may result: the medicalization of deviance is the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition. In practice, this means a change in labels, replacing "good" and "bad" with. "sick" and "well: sutherland"s differential association theory links deviance to how much others encourage or discourage such behaviour, hirschi"s control theory states that imagining the possible consequences of deviance often discourages such behaviour. Sutherland claimed that such offenses are rarely prosecuted and are most likely to end up in civil rather than criminal court: corporate crime refers to illegal actions by a corporation or people acting on its behalf. What is crime: crime is the violation of criminal laws enacted by local, state or federal governments. Including white collar and corporate makes class differences in criminality smaller: black people and particularly aboriginal people are arrested and imprisoned in disproportionate numbers.