SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Critical Criminology, Due Process, Umbrella Term
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Focus on individual factors rooted in biological, psychological or social explanations. Focus on social relations that affect power and inequality. Example: inequality contributes to crime, punishment and society. This theoretical approach adopts a more appreciative stance towards deviants, and. A more critical stance towards the state and the system that defined deviance. Concerned with what happens after an act is committed, not what happens before. Deviance doesn"t reside in the act, but in the reaction to it (social constructionism) How this reaction may consist of application to labels. The impact that labels have on the person who is being labelled. Discrimination in the application of labels and sanctions. Primary deviance is the simple commission of a. Primary deviance is the simple commission of a prohibited act. This is something that pretty much everybody does. Most of the time it is unlabelled: the people concerned don"t develop a deviant identity.
