CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Social Control, Social Constructionism, Moral Panic
29 Sep 2013
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Norms social expectations of how you should behave varies with culture. Formal deviance acts that violate formally enacted law. Informal deviance violation of norms that doesn"t result being penalized. Street crime (day to day crimes) vs sweet crime (white collar crimes: robbery, murder, arson, rape. Sweet crime is not seen as bad as street crime: society focuses on street crime. Street crime immediate effects media exposure likely to be victimized by a known person rather than stranger. Colonel robin williams convicted of first degree murder sexual assaults serving two life sentences. Crime and deviance are different: crime is deviant, deviance isn"t necessarily a crime. Punishments/certain acts have changed over the years: homosexuality 1974 mental illness. Crime and deviance is relative to time and place: time - racism, cigarettes, women"s rights, place women"s rights, singapore can"t chew gum, homosexuality russia. Relative for gender: clothing, promiscuity, women get longer sentences not common for women to commit crime.
