SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Status Offense, Juvenile Delinquency
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Socc30 lecture 1 notes: crime and deviance: forms of behaviour that involves the breaking of rules or norms, crime and deviance: a label, or definition, that has been imposed upon some behaviours, but not others. Additional notes: there are two different but not alternative ways of conceptualizing crime and deviance. The first of these approaches focuses upon crime as a distinctive form of behaviour. As a form of behaviour that we can distinguish from non-crime or non-deviance. Rule breaking behaviour, which some people engage in and which can be distinguished from non-criminal behaviour. This defining or labeling is often seen based on an act powerful in society. Behaviour regarded as criminal or deviant is wide ranging: from mass murder to loud talking in the movie theatre. Additional notes: if you surveyed random people on the street on what they think crime is and to give examples, they"d give you the recent events like the boston bombing.
