Unit 2 criminology + 1.1

• Social crime

  What society says is right and wrong, which can differ from culture to culture, over time and circumstance
• Sanctions for social crime


  • Informal (imposed by non-authorities such as peers and parents, e.g. removing privileges, grounding)
  • Formal (punished by authority e.g. police and work, e.g. suspension, custodial sentence, disciplinary)
• Purpose of sanctions


  • To achieve social control
• Sanctions can be good and bad, as they lead to laws to prevent behaviors usually deviant but not always
• Example of social crime


  • Marriage in Utah at 14 is legal but not legal in the UK till the age of 18
• Social norms


  Rules and socially acceptable standards that govern people's behaviors
• Deviant behavior for social norms 


  • Wearing black to a Chinese funeral instead of wearing white. This is because they represent the dead by white
• Moral codes

  A list of rules usually held by an individual, organization, or group
• example of moral code

  • Police code of ethics
• Moral codes broken in society


  Can be classed as deviant due to it not fitting the general norm and breaking norms or society
• Values


  General principles and guidelines which tell us how we should live our lives
• Values


  Identify what is right and wrong in terms of behavior
• Deviant behaviour of values

  • Wearing odd socks in public
• A formal sanction against deviance is one imposed by a member of authority
• an example of authority is police, workplace and college
• Examples of a formal sanction can be fines, prison and exclusion
• An informal sanction is imposed by someone with no authority
• Someone with no authority is an example of peers, parents, bystanders
• An informal sanction can be an example of grounding a child or removing privileges for immoral behaviour
• The three types of deviant behaviour are good, bad and odd
• Good deviant behaviour is an example of having good attendance in a workplace eg 100% across 25 years
• good deviant behaviour is seen as an acceptable behaviour towards society
• Bad deviant behaviour is seen as behaviour which goes against what society sees as acceptable. This can be an example of attacking someone
• An odd deviant behaviour is an example of owning 35 cats this is because is seen as an unusual behaviour. It’s not seen as good or bad