SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Shoplifting, Actus Reus, Vise

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Mild types of deviance vandalism, protesting, shoplifting, trespassing, public intoxication. Medium types of deviance possession, theft, drug dealing, Severe types of deviances murder, abduction, rape. Social diversions: considered deviance and not criminal (tattoos, different coloured hair) outside the norm but common. Social deviations: less behaviours but more people offended. Can be harmful but a lot are harmless . Conflict crimes: a lot of conflict whether or not some behaviors should be considered a crime. Mala prohibita (wrong by prohibition) (possessing illegal drugs) Easier and more likely to be enforced. Consensus crimes: most visible and predatory crimes (ex. Considered a crime in every culture and place. Cultural- different cultures have different ways of defining deviance. Deviance in one culture may not be deviance in another culture. In usa illegal to be topless, in europe it is legal. Historical- the way crime and deviance is defined changes over time. What was legal becomes illegal, or vise versa.