SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Beauty Pageant, The Techniques, Temporality
9 Feb 2017
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O denial of responsibility: denial of injury, denial of victim. Thinking that you did hurt anyone doing the crime (cid:498)my friends made me do it(cid:499) delinquent wrong (cid:498)he was an asshole anyways(cid:499) Dying victim of status, example: cops getting caught for treating a. Juveniles will drift in and out of deviance. The techniques of neutralization are: appeal to higher loyalties. Have some sort of loyalty to a higher power that justifies what they did example: terrorists job so i have to steal it: condemning the condemners the negative with other positive aspects of their personality. Do something stupid you wouldn"t turn to someone and say god made me do it. In today"s society someone would look at you like you"re crazy. If you"re a suicide bomber and you explain why you did it there is: hunting out of season, cheating students, beauty pageant, technique/behaviour alignment more justification. Less likely you are to deviate because you"re attached.
