SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Tim Hortons
Document Summary
Crime and deviance can be viewed as a rule of norm violating a behaviour. Crime and deviance is a kind of behaviour, there is a wide range of behaviour that constitute. It can be understand by the reaction of the violation. It is a social judgement or label criminal activity. People who engage in crime and deviance are engaging in the breakage of a rule or norm behaviour. They are the do"s and don"ts of society. Some norms apply to everybody in society, it is more universal. When going to tim horton"s in the morning you wouldn"t cut in line because the norm is to join the back of the line. Other norms however apply to those in specific categories: age, religion, gender. Drinking alcohol is a normal behaviour for adults. However there are rules that adolescence cannot drink alcohol until they are 18, 19 or 21.
