SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Uniform Crime Reports, Victimology, Crime Prevention

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: Greg Bird

Document Summary

Deviance (100): departs from norm and acts in a negative way. Crime (100): deviance that is against the law. Law (100): norm enforced by government bodies. Norms and laws change what was once okay is now seen as deviance. Negative sanctions actions indicating disapproval of deviance. Serious acts of deviance punishment: informally/formally. Informal punishment (100): mild sanction imposed face-to-face instead of judicial: raising eyebrow, dirty look, stigmatization. Stigmatization (100): process negatively evaluating people because of a marker that distinguishes them from others: disabled or mentally disabled treated unfairly. Formal punishment (100): people breaking laws involving judicial system. Types of deviance/crime varies with severity of social response: ranges mild disapproval capital punishment, also looked at perceived harmfulness. Coke once had cocaine now illegal because perceived harmfulness: varies with degree of public agreement. Deviance/crime varies: severity of social response, perceived harmfulness, degree of public agreement. Canadian uniform crime reports (ucr) information collected from police departments across.