Three Perspectives of Defining Deviance

Absolutist Perspective

Social Constructionist Approach

Relativist Perspective

Social Power Perspective

Three Types of Norms

Folkways

Mores

Laws

ABCs of Deviance

Three Categories of S's

Negative Deviance

Rate Busting

Deviance Admoration

Positive Deviance

Interactionist Perspective

Relativism: Labeling Theory

Social Reality of Crime

I. The Official Definition of Crime

II. Formulating Definitions of Crime

III. Applying Definitions of Crime

IV. How Behavior Patterns Develop in Relation to Definitions of Crime

V. Constructing and Ideology of Crime

VI. Constructing the Social Reality of Crime