Sociology Now, Census Update
DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL COHERENCE 175 OBJECTIVE: Apply what you have been learning about theoretical explanations of deviance to the ...
Control Theory.Travis Hirschi (1969; Gottfredson and Hirschi, 1995) argued that people do not obey lots of hidden forces: They a ...
Labeling Theory.We used to think that the wrongdoing in deviance resided some- where in the wrongdoer: You break a social rule b ...
being labeled deviant. The answer lies in the fact that those who have the power can make us believe that the rules are “natural ...
study of crime, criminology, has developed into a subdiscipline separate from the soci- ology of deviance, with its own special ...
Broken Windows Theory Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo (1969) proposed the broken windows theory to explain how social contro ...
5.Group autonomy. They defied or ignored authority figures. Even within the gang, the leaders had little power. They resisted an ...
They revised differential association theory to propose several different types of deviant subcultures based on the opportunitie ...
Types of Crimes There are many different types of crimes. Some are crimes against other people; others are crimes against proper ...
the “little guy” can beat the corporations. In fact, these high-profile cases are rare. And it is exceptionally rare for corpora ...
of white-collar crime go unpunished. Many white-collar crimes are settled out of court and never become part of the public recor ...
fell to 30 percent due to government attention and company actions (Deloitte Global Security Survey, 2005). Forty-three percent ...
When compared with most other advanced countries, the United States stands out for its very high homicide rates (Van Kesteren, M ...
criminologists has identified a legion of factors that con- tributed to the drop in crime, including: ■An expanding economy (and ...
Crime and Gender When looking at crime statistics, we are often astonished by the gender gap. In the United States in 2003, only ...
explain why crime (or at least criminal arrests) occur primarily in working-class and poor communities. Middle-class men have te ...
take into account the fact that even within the lower classes, Blacks are signi- ficantly more likely to be arrested and sentenc ...
by more than a century—midnineteeth century to the late twentieth century. And yet the charts look very familiar—as they would v ...
likely that you will be arrested for a crime. While the crime rate goes up as the per- son’s socioeconomic status goes down, thi ...
Minority representation among local police officers increased from 14.6 percent in 1987 to 23.6 percent in 2003. Women’s represe ...
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