SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Trial, White-Collar Crime, Conflict Theories
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The social definition of deviance and crime: cultural norms vary deviance is relative. Nazi"s weren"t criminals at the time, jesus was a criminal at the time. But if the racial discrimination law existed at the time, they wouldn"t have because of sanctions: types of deviance and crime vary in terms of, severity of the social response (mild disapproval to capital punishment, perceived harmfulness (eg. Coca-cola used to contain cocaine, but it was banned after people"s perceptions of its harmfulness changed: degree of public agreement (eg. 19th century, inuits would let the babies die because it wasn"t considered an offence, more concern for food: 4 types of deviance and crime, 1. Social diversions minor acts of deviance that are generally perceived as relatively harmless and that evoke, at most, a mild societal reaction, such as amusement or disdain: eg. fads and fashion, 2. Social deviations non-criminal departures from norms that are nonetheless subject to official control.
