social construction of crime and deviance

• crime and deviance


  Crime is Act that breaks law of society and is illegal such as murder

  Deviance is behaviour that is disapproved by most of society, and has deviant norms and values such as alcoholism
• Formal and, informal social control


  Formal is like police and government, cjs

  Informal is peers, family, education, workplace
• social constructed


  Crime and deviance or subjective and relative because they are different depending on one of three

  Time, society and context

  Time is example, homosexuality changed to legal but before was illegal (Goffman)

  Context is wearing no clothes in the UK

  Society is that alcohol is legal in the UK, but in Qatar its band
• examples


  Vandalism is like graffiti and some aspects of it are allowed, but some aren’t because it depends on society decision if it causes harm or not

  Smoking is deviance relative because it changed all the time because before in public places it was allowed, but now isn’t
• types of deviance


  Plummer (interactionist) discusses private and public, sphere

  Secret and private is undercover such as cheating on drugs

  Open and public is subculture such as Goth wear black in public
• Plummer- 2 types of deviance

  Societal- break law and seen as deviant by most such as child marriage

  Situational – depends on situation, such as alcohol or murder because it isn’t legal generally, but it is allowed and legal in war
• social construction of crime

  Cicourel (interactionist)- negotiation of justice, police influenced by stereotypes and have typification of a typical offender, which is a young black working class meal when making a rest

  Probation officers had theories of poor socialisation and middle-class, parents negotiated justice of their kids and were less likely charged due to coming from better social class
• social construction of crime

  box (marxist)– powerful and rich socially construct the definition of what is an isn’t a crime

  E.g.: tax isn’t seen as a crime because government decided it isn’t, but when they steal money, it is theft

  Murder is illegal in general, but in war, government says it is okay to kill the enemies