SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Assault, Social Stigma, Male Unemployment
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Lecture week 3: chapter 7 and reiman and leighton: deviance and crime. For canadians top 10 social issues include crime at top 3. Canadians believe crime is on the rise, courts are too lenient and death penalty should be used. People that commit crime aren"t necessarily bad people - it just indicates technical violation of criminal law, doesn"t tell us about their moral character. Section 319 of criminal code: prohibits the wilful promotion of hatred against any identifiable group or anyone distinguished by color, race, sex, religion, or ethnic group. Can be imprisoned up to 2 years. Deviance: breaking a norm, violation of an accepted rule or behavior. No act is inherently deviant or normal - defined according to norms. Crime = deviance that breaks a law. Law = a norm stipulated and enforced by government. Reactionary - legal today, illegal in 10 years. Informal punishment - mild sanction that is imposed during face to face interaction.
