Deviance and Crime by Itzel Camarena, Hr. 5 
Perspectives 
On Deviance
Absolutist
Reactive
Normative
-claims that deviance resides in the very nature of an act and is wrong at all times and in all places
-claims that deviance is only a violation of a specific group's or society's rules at a specific point in time
-claims that behavior does not become deviant unless it is disapproved of by those in authority (laws)
Social Control
-formal and informal attempts at enforcing norms
Negative Sanctions
Positive Sanctions
-punishments or negative reactions toward deviance
-rewards for conforming behavior
Norms 
Deviance 
-set of expected behaviors for a given role and social status
violation of norms or rules of behavior that are typically outside of the norms
-abnormal; aberration, anomaly, weird, irregular, and even unnatural
Conformity
- adherence to the normative and legal standards of a group in society
Crime
-behavior which violates laws and to which governments can apply negative sanctions
White-Collar Crimes
-crimes of insider nature that typically are difficult to punish and have broad social consequences upon the masses
Differential Association
-process of learning deviance from others in your close relationships who provide role models of and opportunities for deviance
Retreatism
Rebellion
-People withdraw and reject most of the goals (they reject and don’t pursue their goals—Street people, bag ladies, and hoboes)
People reject both the goals and the means to attain them (They reject socially approved goals and replace with deviant goals—Terrorists and freedom fighters)
Innovation
People commit crime to attain their goals (they accept and pursue their goals by replacing legitimate with deviant/criminal means to attain them—Criminals)
