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6.1 Describe who is deviant and why.

Video Link: What is deviance?

Audio Link: Bad Baby

Web Resource: What is deviance?

6.2 Compare key ideas in the differential association, labeling, rational choice, structural functional, and conflict perspectives on deviance.

Video Link: Perspectives on Deviance

Audio Link: Except for that One Thing

Web Resource: Theories of Deviance

6.3 Provide possible explanations for why the crime rate has fallen in recent years.

Video Link: Crime Rate Fall, Private Prisons still make Millions

Web Resource: Perceptions haven’t caught up to Decline in Crime

6.4 Describe types of organized crime prevalent today.

Video Link: Top 5 Most Powerful Criminal Organizations

Audio Link: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Web Resource: FBI-Organized Crime

 6.5 Give examples of crimes committed at the national and global level today.

Video Link: How Globalization affects Transnational Crime

Audio Link: I was so High

Web Resource: The Global Regime for Transnational Crime

6.6 Discuss why you think either the structural functional or conflict perspective would be more useful in explaining the function of prisons in U.S. society today.

Video Link: Gangs in Control of American Prisons

Audio Link: Cops See it Differently – Part I

Web Resource: Using Social Theory to Analyze the Private Prison Industry