SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Internal Control, High Crime
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Differentiate between criminology and study of deviance. Criminality or deviance innate to the person at the genetic, biological, psychological level. There is a deviance side of things from the sociological perspective you talk about the social control. Something can be deviant but not criminal and vice versa. Criminal behaviour is innate to that person we are talking about pathology. If a drug addict does something, it would be seen as a criminal offense. Social control mechanisms: formal & informal: formal: criminal justice institution authority that shapes our conduct. Most social control even though we don"t think about it is more informal: most behaviour is contained in our day-to-day life. Not all deviance is crime it is not all a violation of formal rules and behaviours. Subjective constructive does not question the law. Chapter 2: the criminal law and its process.
