1.  A2 Syllabus.  Deep Impact Activity  PP: What is Crime and Deviance?  What is Stratification? Mind Map  Handout - What is Stratification?

2.  Deviance:  Behaviour that goes against conventional norms and values.  Mostly regarded as behaviour that’s inappropriate, or at the extreme: unacceptable and wrong  Deviance is usually subject to a variety of ‘social controls’ ranging from mild disapproval to severe punishments (laws).

3. Crime:  Crime is most often seen as breaches of common laws. Crimes are usually seen as serious acts of deviance.  They are usually enforced by ‘agents of social control’ (Police, Courts, lawyers).  “ Crimes are those actions deemed so disturbing to citizens or disruptive to society as to justify state intervention’. (Pease, 2002)

4.  Problems with defining crime:  Wrong to assume some crimes are more disturbing to citizens than others.  Some destructive behaviour can be non criminal (pollution, destruction of world wildlife).  Some crimes are put into a moral context.  Some ‘crimnial behaviour’ can be non destructive (Speeding fines)  Exercise (page 203, As Sociology)

5.  Make a mindmap outlining all the different ways people are layered, given status, broken up or labelled in society  Read the handout on stratification