SOCL 4461 Study Guide - Burglary, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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The state has an infrastructure set up to punish those deviants who deviation are crimes break the law: all violations are acts of deviance; some of those are crimes, criminology: the study of lawmaking, the study of lawbreaking, and the social reaction to lawbreaking, sutherland"s definition, the study of lawmaking. 2 or more groups battling it out and the stronger side gets to impose its notions: ex) prostitution, drugs, smoking, abortion, these are going to continue to evolve through this conflict, for example, the laws regarding marijuana (or drug laws in general) are directed not so much at the drug per say, but rather at the users and the lifestyle of the users and what the users represent, these laws may have been directed toward hippies rather than toward the drug itself, cocaine used to be a social lubricant; but as the categories of users changed, the laws around cocaine changed.
