What is deviance

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• What is deviance?
• Positive deviance and negative deviance
• Relative to culture and history

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Structure Functional

• Functional for Society Durkheim
• Defines norms and values
• Group solidarity good vs. bad people
• Social change
• Functional for Individuals Merton

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Mertons Strain Theory
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Hirschi Social Bond/Control Theory

• What keeps us from committing crime?
• Focus primarily on bonds with family
• Eventually develop self-control
• Process of successful socialization
• Similar to Walter Reckless control theory

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Symbolic Interaction

• Learning
• Sutherlands Differential Association
• Becker and Marihuana Users
• Labeling and Stigma
• Saints and the Roughnecks
• Impression management and neutralization
  techniques
• Homicide and Saving Face

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Conflict

• Marx class conflict
• Powerful vs. powerless
• Threaten social order that keep elite in power
• Feminist gender specific

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Problems with theories

• White Collar and Corporate crime
• Gender aspect
• Aging out

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Response to deviance

• Positive sanctions promote conformity
• Negative sanctions formal and informal
• Reasons for punishment
• Retribution Deterrence Rehabilitation Societal
  protection
• Restorative Justice
• How much are we willing to spend on the other?