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Video Links:

1. Video 8.1: Deviance
Description: This video explores the concept of deviance in sociology.

2. Video 8.2: The Released
Description: This program is a follow-up to The New Asylums. Filmed five years after the original program it examines how mentally ill ex-convicts fare after release.

3. Video 8.3: Perspectives on Deviance: Differential Association, Theory, and Strain Theory
Description: This Khan Academy video presents the sociological perspectives on deviance.

4. Video 8.4: Lessons From Death Row Inmates
Description: In this Ted Talk, attorney David Dow, explores who is one death row in America. His talk focuses on the shared biographies of death row inmates and looks closely at the relationship between childhood home life, foster care, and death row.

5. Video 8.5: Why Mental Illness ‘Should Never Be a Crime’
Description: From PBS News Hours’ Brief but Spectacular series, an intimate personal account of the impacts of criminalizing mental illness. The complex and overlapping social institutions that influence this phenomenon are explored and critiqued.

Audio Link:

1. Audio 8.1: This American Life 207: Special Ed
Description: This program is composed of stories about people who were told that they're different. Some of them were comfortable with it. Some didn't understand it. And some understood, but didn't like it. Act one is a series of interviews with three of the people involved in making the documentary How’s Your News?, about a team of developmentally disabled people who travel across the country doing man-on-the-street interviews. The interviewer talks to two of the developmentally disabled reporters, Susan Harrington and Joe Simon, and to the film's non-disabled director, Arthur Bradford. In Act two, we hear from a mother and her son. By age seven, he'd had heart failure and been diagnosed as bipolar. And then—after a period as the world's youngest Stephen Hawking fan—he got better. In the third act, a woman tells the story of her developmentally disabled brother Vincent, who one day quit his job and then quit everything else, mystifying everyone in his life.

Web Links:

1. Web 8.1: Society for the Study of Social Problems
Description: Although their interests extend beyond crime and deviance, members of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) frequently study these issues. The official journal of the SSSP is Social Problems.

2. Web 8.2: The Bureau of Justice Statistics
Description: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates statistics on crime, victims of crime, criminal offenders, and operations of justice systems at all levels of government throughout the United States.

3. Web 8.3: Teaching Deviance and Social Construct
Description: From TRAILS, an interactive class activity to introduce how deviance is socially constructed.

4. Web 8.4: The Jumpsuit Project
Description: The mission of Sherrill Roland’s, Jumpsuit Project, is to ignite discussions about incarceration and stigma as well as challenge common perceptions about how mass incarceration works.

5. Web 8.5: The Prison Policy Initiative
Description: The Prison Policy Initiative is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization exploring the social ramifications of mass incarceration and policy proposals aimed at addressing injustice. This resource offers numerous data sets and visualizations useful in guiding a discussion on incarceration, power, inequality, and equity.