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1. resources.saylor.org › wwwresources › archivedChapter 7: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control - Saylor Academy

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   sociology lecture is considered rude. Listening to your iPod when on the witness stand before a judge may cause you to be held in contempt of court, and consequently fined or jailed. As norms vary across culture and time, it makes sense that notions of deviance change also.

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2. faculty.washington.edu › Papers › InequalityChapter 29 Social Inequality, Crime, and Deviance

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   Ross L. Matsueda and Maria S. Grigoryeva*. Abstract. This chapter examines the role of social inequality in crime and deviance by specifying a social psychological theory of the causal mechanisms by which inequality is associated with crime. We begin by noting that the powerful have more input into the con-tent of criminal law, a point ...

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3. www.sociology.org.uk › cc_pdf › cc_dist_text_chapter4_1Crime and Deviance - Sociology

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   Under-reporting: The British Crime Surveys tell us two interesting things in this respect. First, crimes reported by the public account for around 90% of all recorded crime (the police, in other words, are responsible for discovering around 10% of recorded crime). Second, around 50% of all crime is not reported to, or recorded by, the police ...

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4. faculty.washington.edu › matsueda › PapersDifferential social organization, collective action, and crime

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   tend to have high rates of crime. From these observations, Sutherland hypothesized that high crime rates are rooted in normative conflict, which he defined as a condition in which society is segmented into groups that conflict over the definition of appropriate behavior. R.L. Matsueda

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5. link.springer.com › content › pdfA Sociological Theory of Crime and Delinquency - Springer

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   The sociological study of crime and delinquency has focused either on the social structural factors (e.g., poverty and social disorganization) believed to generate such behavior or on the arenas (e.g., family, school, and peer groups)

   • Author: Marvin D. Krohn, James L. Massey, William F. Skinner

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6. openstax.org › books › introduction-sociology-3e7.2 Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance and Crime - OpenStax

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   They also determined that social disorganization was, in turn, associated with high rates of crime and delinquency—or deviance. Recent studies Sampson conducted with Lydia Bean (2006) revealed similar findings. High rates of poverty and single-parent homes correlated with high rates of juvenile violence.

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   Are high crime rates rooted in normative conflict?

   • Moreover, they tend to have high rates of crime. From these observations, Sutherland hypothesized that high crime rates are rooted in normative conflict, which he defined as a condition in which society is segmented into groups that conflict over the definition of appropriate behavior.

   Differential social organization, collective action, and crime

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   What is Criminology in sociology?

   • What is criminology? ―Criminology consists of the study of the social problem of crime, including the processes of making and breaking laws as well as society’s reaction to the phenomenon.‖ — J. Mitchell Miller (―Criminology as Social Science,‖ Crime and Criminals)

   SOCI 209: SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME1 - University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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   How does social disorganization affect crime and Delinquency?

   • They found that poverty, ethnic diversity, and family disruption in given localities had a strong positive correlation with social disorganization. They also determined that social disorganization was, in turn, associated with high rates of crime and delinquency – or deviance.

   Chapter 7: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control - Saylor Academy

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   What determines the crime rate of a group?

   • The crime rate of a group is determined by the extent to which the group is organized in favor of crime versus organized against crime. Moreover, the explanation of crime rates, differential social organization, is consistent with the explanation of individual acts of crime, differential association.

   Differential social organization, collective action, and crime

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8. soc.unl.edu › SOCIOLOGY › spring 2015 syllabiSOCI 209: SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME1 - University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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   SOCI 209: SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME1. 4:15pm, or by a. intmentWhat is sociology? ―Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and c. nsequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people inte.