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    This document discusses key concepts related to crime and deviance. It defines crime as an unlawful act or omission punishable by the state. Deviance is described as behavior that departs from social norms and provides a contrast to help define what is considered normal. The document outlines that societies establish informal norms (folkways), more serious norms (mores), and formal laws to guide behavior and determine what is criminal. While laws aim to establish formal rules, what is legal does not always align with what is considered fair or just. The study of criminology examines how societies define criminals and aims to understand criminal motivations and improve the criminal justice system.

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    This document discusses key concepts related to crime and deviance. It defines crime as an unlawful act or omission punishable by the state. Deviance is described as behavior that departs from social norms and provides a contrast to help define what is considered normal. The document outlines that societies establish informal norms (folkways), more serious norms (mores), and formal laws to guide behavior and determine what is criminal. While laws aim to establish formal rules, what is legal does not always align with what is considered fair or just. The study of criminology examines how societies define criminals and aims to understand criminal motivations and improve the criminal justice system.

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    SC 8-26-10

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    Harold Ingram
    This document discusses key concepts related to crime and deviance. It defines crime as an unlawful act or omission punishable by the state. Deviance is described as behavior that departs from social norms and provides a contrast to help define what is considered normal. The document outlines that societies establish informal norms (folkways), more serious norms (mores), and formal laws to guide behavior and determine what is criminal. While laws aim to establish formal rules, what is legal does not always align with what is considered fair or just. The study of criminology examines how societies define criminals and aims to understand criminal motivations and improve the criminal justice system.

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    Crime

     Unlawful act
     Omission
     Society informs us what we say are crimes
     *Act / omission in violation of the criminal law and punishable by the state

    Deviance

    - Provides us with a contrasting background in which we can test our NORMS, FOLKWAYS,
    MORES, and Laws

    Guidelines for behavior

    - Norms=Folkways (the way we should act)


     Informal norms
    - Reactions to informal norms= Sanctions (Positive or Negative)
    - Mores of Moral Importance
     Ex. Ten Commandments

    Laws

    - Formal norms
    - Guidelines for behavior
    - Society says this is the way you must behave

    Folkways

    - Informal Norms
    - Ways we should behave

    Deviance

    - Neither good nor bad


    - Departs from the Norm
    - No acts are naturally Deviant

    Our Norms, Folkways, Laws all very. Not consistence

    People who disagree with the law purposely deviate from them by committing NONCONFORMING
    BEHAVIOR

    Aberrant Behavior

    - Escape
    Legal DOES NOT EQUAL Fair and Just

    *Criminological Enterprise

    1. Sociology of Law
    - Studies how we determine those as criminals
    2. Penology
    - Studying the agents of social control (Law Enforcements, Courts, etc.)
    - What should be changed, enhanced
    3. Victimology
    - Are there things we do / commit that ____ around us to _______
    4. Etiology
    5. Criminal Statistics

    Criminal Motivations

    1. Sex
    2. Greed
    3. Stupidity

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