CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cesare Lombroso, School Violence, Xyy Syndrome
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Defining criminology: an interdisciplinary scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour, including their form, causes, legal aspects, and control (criminal behaviour, motivations, our reactions to it) Norms: acceptable standards of behaviour shared by members of a particular group or society (prescriptive function) Deviance (the breaking of norms: behaviours, beliefs or characteristics that many people in society find or would find offensive and which provoke, upon discovery, disapproval, punishment, condemnation, or reality. Societal deviance: actions and conditions widely recognized, in advance and in general to be deviant, high consensus. Hegemony: the predominance or pre-eminence of one group and its values over other groups. Situational deviance: the way different subcultural groups develop norms of behaviour that are normal in. Abc"s of deviance: attitudes, behaviour, conditions (physical deformity, mental illness) Relativity: norms and deviance are not static phenomenon, the identification of deviance is a dynamic process and social norms may change or be viewed differently at a given time.
