Sociology Now, Census Update

200 CHAPTER 6DEVIANCE AND CRIME

Montana

2

Wash.

4

Oregon

2

Calif.

13

Nevada

12

Arizona

22

Utah

6

Idaho

1

Wyoming

1

Colorado

1

New Mexico

1

Texas

368

Oklahoma

81

Missouri

66

Va. 95

N.C. 42

S.C.

36

Georgia

Miss. Ala. 34 39

6

Arkansas

27

La.

27

Fla.

60

Nebraska

3

Kansas

S. Dakota

N. Dakota

Minn.

Iowa

Illinois

12

Ind.

17

Ohio

21

Kent. 2

Tenn. 2

W.

Va.

Pa.

3

Wis. N.Y.

Mich.

Vt.

N.H.

Maine

Mass.

R.I.

Conn. 1

N.J.

Delaware 14

Maryland 5

D.C.

Alaska

Hawaii

0 executions

1–5

6–10

11–25

26–50

51–100

over 100

Alaska

Hawaii

Iowa

Maine

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

North Dakota

Rhode Island

Vermont

West Virginia

Wisconsin

District of Columbia

January 17, 1977– June 28, 2006 States with No Death Penalty

FIGURE 6.8 Death Penalty Executions in the United States

Source:From the Death Penality Information Center website, http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org. Cartography by James Woods. Used by permission of Death Penalty
Information Center and James Woods.

Deviance and Crime in the 21st

Century

I still wait each morning at 6:00 a.m. for that red light on campus to change to green.

I stare at my watch. One minute. Two minutes. Today I’m going to run it. There are no

police cars around. There are no cars around at all. Three minutes. I’m going to run it.

I’m really going to run it. I’m a rebel—I make my own rules! Four minutes. There are

no hidden cameras. There will be no punishment. I’m going to run it. Just watch me!

Five minutes. The light turns green. I say a bad word under my breath and drive

through the intersection.

The main question in deviance and crime is not why so many people break the

rules. It’s also why so many people don’t. The question of order is the flip side of the

question of deviance—and both are of significant interest. We may all be deviants,

but we’re also, most of the time, law-abiding citizens. And we obey the law not only