SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homicide, Counterculture, Psychological Trauma
1. Crime and Deviance Lecture 10 Situational Theories
Application II
Becoming a hit man:
-Studies a “very deviant” career to delineate how exactly a person can do this kind of
work
-Hit man is a strong case study
-How does a person who sees homicide as unlawful, self-serving and intentional
come to engage in this act?
-Individuals that are engaging deviance are not people who have bought into a
subculture of people, he argues that people from all walks of life become hit man.
He uses the process of reframing and neutralizers, through a series of techniques
related come to see their killing as not killing. Don't see what they are doing as
violence but rather doing a job.
Neutralizers:
-Independent killed doesn't have the same sort of appeal to higher loyalties card to
play as an organized killer?
-Do not become socio-pathic automatically but have to go through a process
Contract: deny the victim and deny responsibility:
-Hit rather than kill
-Mark rather than person
-Contract allows you to deny the victim, because you aren’t killing you are hitting a
mark on your contract, higher loyalty.
Reputation and money: deny injury
-“Just a job”
skill: deny responsibility:
-if I didn't do it, they’d find someone else who would, relieving culpability.
But is it so easy?
-Neutralizers are used to enable a person to do dirty or deviant work by temporarily
bracketing the experience from their broader more sense of identity.
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Document Summary
Crime and deviance lecture 10 situational theories. Studies a very deviant career to delineate how exactly a person can do this kind of work. Hit man is a strong case study. Individuals that are engaging deviance are not people who have bought into a subculture of people, he argues that people from all walks of life become hit man. He uses the process of reframing and neutralizers, through a series of techniques related come to see their killing as not killing. Don"t see what they are doing as violence but rather doing a job. Do not become socio-pathic automatically but have to go through a process. Contract: deny the victim and deny responsibility: Contract allows you to deny the victim, because you aren"t killing you are hitting a mark on your contract, higher loyalty. Skill: deny responsibility: if i didn"t do it, they"d find someone else who would, relieving culpability.
