SOCA02H3 Lecture : Crime and Deviance
14 Apr 2011
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Deviance is anything that goes against cultural norms, some norms carry no criminal sanction. Juvenile delequincy, juveniles tend to be treated differently under the criminal code: the age someone is charged in court is set by the government and it does vary by circumstance. Labelling is when you charge someone with a crime, when they come to court they have a criminal label" or a stigma. When people are stigmatized they tend to live to their stigma: self-fulfilling prophecy, most juvenile offenders are male. Their offences range from b&e (break and enter), grand theft auto (stealing cars): both crime and deviance involve social reactions that help define the seriousness of the rule-breaking incident, drugs are victimless crime. Before 1940 only poor people commit crime: drew attention to high prestige people commit crime. www. notesolution. com, white collarcrime costs society billions of dollars than common crimes. 50 billion dollars www. notesolution. com: martha steward got sent to jail for 6 months.
