Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Crime and Deviance
- Police caution is where a warning
rather than prosecution. Formal -
recorded and Informal -
verbal/unrecorded
- Cesare Lombraso (late 1800s)
says that people are born
criminal.
- Folk Devils is where it is over simplified, informed
generalisation of particular people/social groups
who moral entrepreneurs wish to demonise e.g.
peadophiles, hoodies and the 'mods and rockers'
- The media can be more selective in
focusing more on upon some victims
more than others.
- Dark Figure of Crime is where
crime has not been reported or
recorded whereas FIGURE OF
CRIME is where a crime has
been reported/recorded.
- Marx would say "Selective law
enforcement" against workers...Feminists
would say "the fear of humiliation" in
carf.
- African Carribbeans and South Africans are more
likely to be victims of crime.
- Karl Andree, age 74, was imprisoned in Saudi
Arabia for having wine. They let him of 75
lashes (2015
- Folkways
- Social Norms: are informal understandings that govern the behaviour of members of society.