SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Victimless Crime, White-Collar Crime, Rape Of Males
24 Apr 2012
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General term is deviance ( a generic term) is any behaviour that violates cultural norms & produces some type of social reaction. Some norms if you break them no criminal sanctions are applied e. g. friendship norms like keep your friends scerets (=betraying trust) if you violate it , the consequences is losing friend but no jail senteces. Deviance is sometimes could violate a norm that could get you throw in jail refer to that as criminal deviance which is any deviance violates a law. 2 types of deviance criminal and non-criminal deviance. Canadian attitude towards crime crime is big issue in the minds of canadians. Most canadians feel violence crime is on the rise. Tv programs that feature crimes is usually the one that is most popular & movies usually do okay as well: they are so formulated same variable goes into mix & repeated ppl still like them.
