Crime and Deviance

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Sociology Crime Subject
Hannah Poller
Mind Map by Hannah Poller, updated more than 1 year ago
Hannah Poller
Created by Hannah Poller about 6 years ago
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Crime and Deviance
  1. Police caution is where a warning rather than prosecution. Formal - recorded and Informal - verbal/unrecorded
    1. Cesare Lombraso (late 1800s) says that people are born criminal.
      1. 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'
      2. The media can be more selective in focusing more on upon some victims more than others.
        1. 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.
          1. Marx would say "Selective law enforcement" against workers...Feminists would say "the fear of humiliation" in carf.
        2. African Carribbeans and South Africans are more likely to be victims of crime.
          1. Karl Andree, age 74, was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for having wine. They let him of 75 lashes (2015
            1. Folkways
              1. Social Norms: are informal understandings that govern the behaviour of members of society.
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