SOC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Self-Concept, Erving Goffman, Uniform Crime Reports
19 Oct 2013
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Deterrence is a mind set that people come to believe. Fear they may also be punished for the same offence. Punishment needs to occur in close time proximity to the event: certainty of punishment. No leniency; you do this, you get this. Inconsistency reduces effectiveness and will result in a weakness of deterrence: severity of punishment. Too much or too little can weaken deterrence. Erving goffman (1963) influenced such explanations as. Feminist explanations of crime: attempt to reveal the gendered patterns of crime and victimization, emphasize the lack of adequate explanations of crime and victimization offered by male- dominated criminology thinking. Explaining how the deviant identity is developed out of the reaction of others to the offender. **howard becker"s outsiders (1963: those who are labelled deviant or other by those in power can eventually see themselves as different from mainstream society.
