SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - False Advertising, Embezzlement, Rela
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Sociologist john hagan usefully classifies various types of deviance and crime along three dimensions. 1) the first dimension is the severity of the social re- sponse. 2) the second dimension of deviance and crime is the perceived harmfulness of the deviant or criminal act. 3) the third characteristic of de- viance is the degree of public agreement about whether an act should be con- sidered deviant. Dye hair purple) 2) social deviations are more seri- ous acts. Large numbers of people agree these acts are deviant and somewhat harmful, and they are usually subject to institutional sanction. John lie"s high school in hawaii had a rule making long hair on boys a fairly se- rious deviation punishable by a humiliating public haircut. 3) conflict crimes are deviant acts that the state defines as illegal but whose definition is contro- versial in the wider society.
