CHAPTER SIX

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CHAPTER SIX

• DEVIANCE AND CRIME

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Deviance

• Behavior that is recognized as violating expected
  rules and norms
• Types of deviance and crime
• Social diversions
• Social deviations
• Conflict crimes
• Consensus crimes
• Examples

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Functionalist Theories

• Strain theory
• Goaleconomic opportunity
• How to reach the goal
• What happens when you block access?

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Functionalist Theories

• Control theory
• Deviant when social controls insufficient
• Factors
• Explanation of female delinquency

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Conflict Theory

• Who decides who is deviant?
• Who is most likely arrested?
• Who is most likely punished?

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Symbolic Interaction Theories

• Differential Association
• Learn deviant behavior
• Applies to all classes
• Labeling theory
• Primary deviance
• Responses of others
• Self fulfilling prophecy

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Symbolic Interaction Theories

• Subculture theory
• Norms and values
• Neutralization

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Methods of Getting Statistics

• Official records
• Victimization surveys
• Self-report surveys

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Official Reports

• Uniform Crime Reports (FBI)
• Offense data from police
• Problems

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National Crime Victimization Survey

• 43,000 households
• 80,000 individuals
• Strengths and weaknesses

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Self-Report

• The dark figure of crime
• Often survey juveniles
• Strengths and weaknesses

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Crime Trends

• 1960s brought growth
• Peaked in 1993-1994
• Why the decline
• More police
• Aging of population
• Economic boom
• Abortion?
• Peak age for property crimes
• Peak age for violent crimes

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Types of Crime

• Personal crime
• Property crime
• White collar crime
• Which type costs society the most?
• Which is the least prosecuted?

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Criminal Justice System

• Policing of minorities
• Statistics
• Whren v. US
• Race and sentencing
• Prisons
• Rehabilitation, deterrence, or incapacitation
• The McKean experience

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DEVIANCE AND CRIME

• END CHAPTER SIX