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7.1 Define deviance.

Video Link: Perspectives on Deviance: Differential Association, Labeling Theory, and Strain Theory

Description: Explains the concept of deviant behavior and introduces the theories that define deviance in a sociological context (Theory of Differential Association, Labeling Theory, and Strain Theory).

Audio Link: Wild, Wild Web: Policing An Early, Lawless Internet

Description: Technology writer Nate Anderson discusses his book, The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed, which is about how many thought the Internet was beyond government regulation and explored new ways to sidestep the law.

Web Resource: Sociology of Deviant Behavior Lecture Notes

Description: The website defines, summarizes, and explains, what society considers deviant behavior to be and how the sociological theories explain the social context behind when behaviors are labeled deviant.

 

7.2 Describe explanatory and constructionist approaches to theorizing about deviance.

Video Link: Theories of Deviance

Description: The video describes how social theories explain why so many people continue to violate norms and laws regardless of the control systems in place.

Audio Link: Young Baltimore Native: 'This Is the Civil Rights Movement Of My Generation'

Description: A young adult discusses his reasons for participating in a peaceful student rally for justice for Freddie Gray, the man who died in Baltimore in police custody, and his viewpoints regarding the riots that followed in Baltimore against the police.

Web Resource: Delinquent. Dropout. At-Risk. When Words Become Labels

Description: The article focuses on young people who are neither in school nor working. There are an estimated 5.5 million of them, ages 16 to 24, in the United States. Because of labels such as “at risk youth”, and "juvenile," they are more likely to be labeled as deviant by society.

 

7.3 Discuss the relationship between deviance and crime.

Video Link: Introduction to Sociology - Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

Description: People who live in a society are expected to live according to the norms set by that society. The video discusses why people violate norms and the consequences that might follow.

Audio Link: College Course Lumps Homosexuality, Rape, Murder

Description: The audio discusses a course in Franciscan University, which aims to link homosexuality with crimes like murder, rape and robbery.

Web Resource: Deviance - Relationship Between Deviance And Crime

Description: The website explains the relationship between deviance and crime and how the study of criminology and deviance differ.

 

7.4 Discuss the purpose and effects of the criminal justice system.

Video Link: Stephanos Bibas analyzes key problems with American criminal justice system in latest book

Description: Stephanos Bibas, a Professor of Law and Criminology and the Director of Penn Law's Supreme Court Clinic, discusses how lawyers have taken over the criminal justice process over the past two centuries, silencing victims and defendants and, in many cases, substituting a plea-bargaining system for the voice of the jury.

Audio Link: Some Parole Requirements Could Be Increasing The Crime Rate

Description: The audio discusses how the likelihood of prisoners on parole committing another crime depends on whether they return to their old neighborhoods after prison.

Web Resource: The Criminal Justice System

Description: The website provides an overview of how the criminal justice is organized and functions.