Ch. 8-Deviance

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Ch. 8-Deviance
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Todays
Coming Attractions

• Why do people commit crimes?
• Are people born Criminals?
• Does mental illness cause crimes?
• Does your view of the opportunities you have
  cause crime?
• Do your friends cause you to commit crimes?
• Mystery How can you have a crime with no victim?
• Do prisons rehabilitate?

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Why do people commit crimes?

• Biological
• Psychological
• Sociological

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Are people born criminals?

• Lombroso
• McNeil Island story

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Does mental illness cause crime?

• Personality patterns
• Stabbing story
• Pres. Regan story

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Do your friends cause you to commit crimes?

• Edwin H. Sutherland
• Differential association
• Gangs
• Terrorists

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Does your view of the opportunities you have
cause crime?

• Cloward and Ohlin
• Differential opportunity

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Mystery How can you have a crime with no victim?

• Drugs
• Gambling
• Prostitution
• Stories

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Does prison rehabilitate?

• Stories

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Big idea you can use!!

• Your criminal behavior is influenced by
• Your friends
• Groups you are in
• Your perception of opportunities
• Societys definition of what is criminal

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Coming attractions!

• How much are you worth?
• How are you affected by globalization?
• How far away are you from being homeless?
• Are you poor?
• What are your chances of having the American
  Dream?
• How to get rich!