Sociology 8

no

Is capital punishment a deterrent

Symbolic interactionist

Sutherland- people learn deviance form the people with whom they associate, learn in environment

absolutism

approach to defining deviance that rests on the assumption that all human behavior can be considered either inherently good or inherently bad

relativism

approach to defining deviance that rests on the assumption that deviance is socially created by collective human judgements and ideas

social control

attempts to regulate people's thought and behavior

deviance

behavior, ideas, or attributes of an individual or group that some people in society find offensive, socially disproved, violation of norm

UCR

crime report from PD-FBI of # of crimes reported

medicalization

definition of behavior as a medical problem, mandating the medical profession to provide some kind of treatment for it

elements of deviance

expectation, violation, reaction

merton

functionalist theory of deviance, likelihood increase when people experience contradiction between culturally defined goals and economic success/access to legitimate ways to achieve goals- people adopt illegitimate means (strain theory)

self fulfilling prophecy

high rates of recidivism

no

is it deviance if you dont get caught

Gender of social categories

males commit more crimes, levels of aggression, defend themselves

Deterring Deviance

mechanism society has in place to constrain peoples behavior-stigmatized shame

self reports

most accurate measuring crime- no age restriction

criminalization

official definition of an act of deviance as a crime

social class

poor individuals have a higher arrest rates, part of intersectionality

international and global comparisons

rates of murder, assault and crime

NCVS

report when victimized, trust researcher

Race of social categories

stop and frisk, major cities, social indicator- overrepresented- unproportional to population

deterrence theory

theory of deviance positing that people will be prevented from engaging in a deviant act if they judge the costs of such an act to outweigh its benefits-people rational decision makers

Functionalist

theory of likelihood of deviance increases when people experience contradiction between culturally defined goals and econ success- illegitimate means (strain theory)

labeling theory

theory stating that deviance is the consequence of the application of rules and sanctions to an offender a deviant is an individual to whom the identity "deviant" has been successfully applied- WHY acts considered deviant- REACTIONS- sticky