SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Edwin Sutherland, Social Learning Theory, Corporate Crime

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Deviance is any action, human condition, or belief that violates the norms of a society or social group in which it occurs and for the violator is likely to be censured or punished. Crime is any action that violates the criminal laws of a given society and that is punishable with sanctions, including nes and or jail time. Social deviance is any thoughts, acts, behaviours, and human conditions the violate accepted social norms. Criminology is a multidisciplinary eld that includes sociology, law, poli sic, history, geography, and psychology and that focuses on the study of crime. Differential association is a theory of criminality proposed by edwin sutherland which states that the actions of criminals are learned deviant behaviours shaped by others whom they associate. Some say delinquent behaviour can be explained by the absence of social bonds and lack self control. Attachments/connections individuals have to parents, teachers, ect. Belief in a commonly held set of social values.