AHSS 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Main Source, Social Forces, Travis Hirschi
24 Jan 2020
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Vary from one social context to another. People commit deviant acts only when they break a norm and cause others to react negatively. Everyone is a deviant - in one social context or another. Law a governmentally stipulated and enforced norm. Deviance: departure from a norm that evokes a negative reaction from others. A mild sanction that is imposed during face-to-face interaction rather than by the judicial system. Penalization by the judicial system for breaking a law. Types of deviance and crime vary in terms of: Stigmatization: severity of the social response, perceived harmfulness, degree of public agreement. Measuring crime: canadian uniform crime reports (ucr) Information on crime collected by police; the main source of crime statistics. Shortcoming of crime statistics: victimless crimes, authorities and the wider public impact the reporting of criminal acts, self-report surveys. Respondents report involvement in criminal activities (perpetrators or victims) They report approximately the same rate of serious crime as official statistics.
