SOSC 2650 Lecture Notes - Diversion Program, Ingroups And Outgroups, Victimless Crime

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Lecture overview: brief recap, labeling theory"s starting premises: social construction and symbolic interactionism, howard becker: outsiders, testing labeling theory, policy implications, recap, social process theories (social and psychological process) Social learning: differential association theory, neutralization theory (what techniques you learn that helps you neutralize your moral values) Socialization and creating social bonds: social control theory (process of creating social bonds; things that will tie you as an individual to society; assumes people who have attachments or involvements can hold conventional moral policing) Labeling theory: social process of labeling *are not functionalist because they do not assume that societal idea is not given; any social and moral order is a given achievement* Societal reaction to crime *durkheim; whether an act was criminal or not* Functionalists assume societal consensus us a given and naturally exits *we need crime and it is normal and a necessary feature; everyone agrees on what makes a collective conscious*

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