Chapter 06: Deviance and Crime PDF

Chapter 06: Deviance and Crime Housekeeping Office hours Group project Importance of Language Today, after class until Getting approval for Words are importan...

Chapter 06: Deviance and Crime Housekeeping Office hours Group project Importance of Language Today, after class until Getting approval for Words are important 2pm the movie: 20th and can make change October in meaning and consequences What is today’s What is Deviance? session about? Conflict Deviance Race and Deviance Gender and Deviance Class and Deviance Sexual Orientation and Deviance Disability and Deviance What Is Deviance? Deviance is Contested Conflict Deviance Deviance Is Contested within Cultures: Definitions of deviance differ not only across but within cultures Deviance is a social or cultural construct Deviance can be contested Conflict Deviance Conflict Deviance is a disagreement among groups over whether or not something is deviant. E.g.: legalization of marijuana Substance use and smoking cigarettes Spirituality Science Social Constructionism versus Essentialism Social constructionism Stigma and Deviance The Othering and Others Deviance and the Moral Panic Race and Deviance Race and Deviance Canada formally A set of policies and practices subscribes to designed to encourage respect multiculturalism for cultural differences But: Racialized Pressure to become culturally similar to the dominant minorities face culture pressure to Covert attempts to “change” Assimilate peoples’ cultural preferences Not assimilating can be viewed as deviant Racial Profiling racial profiling Gender and Deviance Class and Deviance: To Be Poor Is Deviant White-Collar Crime  Schools-to-prison hypothesis Biased application of zero-tolerance policies in schools Poor schools are often located in racialized neighbourhoods Constant surveillance and bias in the criminal justice system can result in higher incarceration rates Crime in Low-Income Communities Class and Deviance: The lower class is over-represented in the statistics on criminal convictions and admissions to prison To Be Poor Is Deviant Reasons for higher crime rates include: A lack of social resources e.g., knowledge of the law and legal system, lack of social connection, and the ability to pay for a lawyer Limited ability for impression management: Control of personal information flow to manipulate how others see and treat you Sexual Orientation and Deviance That’s so gay!  Disability and Deviance People with disabilities often suffer negative sanctions by society not accommodating differences in physical ability Punished not by being singled out, but by omission => They are not even considered to be singled out => invisible, silenced, ignored e.g., revolving doors, restricting sidewalks, public transport People with disabilities have been targeted because of their difference Lennard Davis and the Politics of the Disabled Body=> The politics of disability involves promoting respect for difference, as opposed to just respecting the “normal” and treating anything else as a problem to be solved. The social problem of disability is actually created by those people (typically able-bodied people) who view and treat those with a different set of abilities as “Other” rather than accepting their difference. Example of eyeglasses and change of the norms Disability and Deviance See you on Friday! Check the Discussion on Brightspace