SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Inequality, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Medicalization
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Crime the violaion of a society"s formally enacted criminal law. Social control atempts by society to regulate people"s thought and behaviour. Criminal jusice system a formal response by police, courts and prison oicials to alleged violaions of the law. Early studies showed relaionship of criminal behaviour with head shape (lombroso) and body size (sheldon) but they were faulty. Noe studies show people"s overall geneic composiion in combinaion with social inluences account for variaion in criminality. Psychological explanaions of deviance focus on abnormality in the individual personality. Deviance is viewed as the result of unsuccessful socializaion. Containment theory individual factors like the ability to cope with frustraion and idenifying posiively with cultural norms and values are related to fewer problems with police. Criical review the most serious crimes are commited by those whose psychological proiles are normal. The social foundaions of deviance p. 210: deviance varies according to cultural norms.
