SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White-Collar Crime, Erving Goffman, Acquaintance Rape
2 Feb 2016
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How different sociological frameworks approach the study of crime. Moral panics and media portrayal of crime. Goals: distinguish between definitions of deviance and crime, compare and contrast different sociological traditions and frameworks for describing, measuring and explaining deviance, crime, and social control, see changing historical trends in social control and regulation in. Deviance occurs when someone departs from a norm and evokes a negative reaction from others (brym et al. , 2015: 167). [ textbook definition of deviance follows the symbolic interactionist tradition . A law is a norm stipulated and enforced by government bodies (brym et al. , 2015: 167). What influences decisions about things that are against the law (e. g. meting out punishments): hagan (1994): the severity of social response to deviance and crime varies according to perceived harmfulness (in brym et al, Clarifying the sociological usage of the term sanctions: Penalties, sometimes imposed by way of discipline or punishment.
