Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Moral Panic, Youth Criminal Justice Act, Identity Theft
15 Apr 2016
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Sociology 1020 brym textbook chapter 14 notes: crime & deviance. One way of conceptualizing crime or deviance is to emphasize its rule-breaking qualiies, focusing in paricular on its behavioural dimensions. Norms - generally accepted ways for doing things. The most important norms are writen laws, or norms that the state enforces. Crime - breach of the criminal law that is liable to prosecuion and punishment. Some norms have wide scope, applying to more or less everybody in the community - prescripions against murder and armed robbery, for instance. Other norms may apply only to paricular subgroups of society. For example, there are prohibiions on the behaviours of adolescents that do not apply to adults. They involve some types of sexual behaviour, for example, and alcohol use. The most important of them are laws, which are regulated by a criminal jusice system that includes police, courts, prisons and so on.
