SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Cesare Lombroso, Organized Crime, Psychopathy

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

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Deviance: behavior that violates the norms/expectations of a group or society. Criminal behavior: violates the law, formal norms. Central tension: our aspirations do not coincide with opportunities to achieve them, exacerbates in an unequal society, this disparity results in the need to deviance. Durkheim: states modern societies are particularly susceptible to crime and deviance, functions of deviance, boundary maintenance, solidarity, innovation. Recording industry and artists want to define file-sharing as deviant behavior. Those in power have redefined (labeled) file-sharers as criminals: who can actually be held accountable for deviant behavior, social and political aspects, men in power are now being accountable for their behavior, shift in social culture, hollywood. Social disorganization theory: attributes increases in crime to the absence of breakdown of communal relationships and social institutions. (cid:862)broke(cid:374) wi(cid:374)dow theor(cid:455)(cid:863) --james q. wilson: disorganization can lead to a greater rate of crime. Zi(cid:373)(cid:271)ardo"s (cid:272)ars; the bro(cid:374)(cid:454), nyc a(cid:374)d palo alto, ca.