CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jaywalking, Herbert Annesley Packer, Fundamental Justice

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

Norms: social expectations of how we should behave or values or beliefs. They can be implicit or explicit priority seating is written on the bus and therefore explicit; not talking when the professor is lecturing and respecting personal space would be implicit. We have norms because it helps us interact and makes people belong there is order and predictability with norms as they manage behaviour. Deviance: anything that goes against the norms. Formal deviance violates formally enacted laws (crime), and with this comes formal sanctions imprisonment, fines, etc. Informal deviance doesn"t necessarily result in formal sanctions (rolling your eyes, acting out), informal sanctions can include ostracization, etc. What we find deviant can change over time. Crime: an act or omission (not doing what you should do or doing what you"re not supposed to do, ex. negligence) prohibited by criminal law that is subject to sanctions by state authority and social stigma.