1. DEVIANCE!

2. Functionalist Perspective on Deviance
Stigma- The mark of deviance
Can be physical or implied/labeled
Examples?
Anomie-Unclear or unaccepted norms
Part of Strain Theory (outgrowth of norms, values, and structure)
Suicide as example

3. Conflict Perspective
Social inequality and competition is why deviance occurs
We “label” people based on many factors to give them a disadvantage.
Common with class conflict
Lower class is more deviant

4. Interactionist Perspective
Control Theory
Deviance is natural and occurs through conformity
Social Ties explain CONFORMITY
Example
Teacher/Student Classroom rules Good Behavior
Those who reject this social tie are deviant

5. Conformity Miscellaneous
Cultural Transmission
Deviance is learned
Differential association
The people you “hang with” determine your behavior
Techniques of Neutralization
Suspend morals and be deviant

6. Labeling Theory Examples?
Labels people are given affect their own and others’ perceptions of them, thus channeling their behavior either into deviance or into conformity.
What does this mean?
A person has no choice but to act how people label them to.
Examples?
Poverty-Crime
Teenagers-Immature and
troublemakers

7. Labeling Theory Primary Deviance Secondary Deviance
primary deviance is a term that describes deviant behavior in an individual (occasional deviance)
Secondary Deviance
when a negative label gets applied so publicly and so powerfully that it becomes part of that individual's identity
Ex. Criminals released back into society will sometimes continue their life of crime

8. Crime and Deviance What is crime?
Deviance prohibited by law
What is the difference between a criminal and a deviant?
Criminology-Study of Criminal behavior

9. Types of Crime Violent -Murder Property- Burglary
Victimless- Prostitution
White Collar – ”Rich Peoples Crimes”

10. White Collar Crime
Crimes that are committed by "respectable people" during the course of their occupation
Embezzling, price fixing, insider buying, fraud, falsification of expense accounts (or other records), and theft of materials.
Casts doubt on the notion that poverty creates crime

11. Random Deviant Terms Racial Profiling-Non Whites are more deviant
Plea Bargaining
Corrections
Recidivism-Repeated
criminal behavior

12. The Purpose of Corrections
Retribution- Punishing Criminals
Deterrence- Discourage future Crimes
Rehabilitate- Reform Criminal Behavior
Social Protection- Protect the non deviant “conformers”