SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Victimless Crime, Symbolic Interactionism, Male Unemployment
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Deviance involves breaking a norm and evoking a negative reaction from others. Crime is deviance that breakse a law which is a norm stipulated and enforced by government bodies. Informal punishment is mild, raised eyebrows, gossip, ostracism, shaming or stigmatization. Stigmatized- are negatively evaluated because of a marker that distinguishes them from others. People who are stigmatized are negatively evaluated because of a marker that distinguishes them from others and that is labeled socially unacceptable. Formal punishment result from people breaking the laws. 4 types of deviance and crim: social diversion: minor acts of deviance; ex. Less reliable data about offenders homicide rates have lowered most prone to crime was young and since it is declining crime rate is the male unemployment rate, poor economic conditions in the 1980"s. Linked to the legalization of abortion crime started to decline 19 years after abortion was legalized in the us, drop occurred because earlu 1970"s.
