Transcript Crime and deviance

Crime and deviance
Learning questions
Can you explain the difference between crime and deviance?
Starter: Think, pair and share
In pairs, arrange cards into a diamond 9 order from the most to
the least serious offence.
Discuss (A): Which of these offences do you think are punishable
by law? Which are not? Why do you think that?
5 Mins
Pair tasks
Sort the cards into two piles:
Criminal behaviour
I’m not going to tell you the
difference between criminal and
deviant behaviour! Try and work
it out with your partner.
Deviant behaviour
8 Mins
Crime and deviance
Spitting in the
street
Murder
‘Burping’ after a
meal
Downloading
music off the
internet
Eating smelly
food on a bus
Driving over the
speed limit
Playing loud
Spraying graffiti
music at home at onto a train
2am
Smoking in a
restaurant in
2005
Smoking in a
restaurant in
2012
Pushing into a
queue
Shoplifting
Keeping money
you have been
given in error in
the supermarket
A student ‘copies
and pastes’ their
homework from
Wikipaedia
Drinking a can of
beer on the bus
Deviance
Behaviour that is disapproved of or seen as
abnormal in a society. Such behaviour will not
conform to society's norms and values and may
disturb the social order.
Crime
Behaviour that breaks the written laws of a country
(robbery, fraud, shoplifting)
Underline the key words within the definitions (if there are any
words you are unsure of, look at your glossary).
Challenge question: Who or what influences what is seen as deviant?
Deviance is subjective
What does this mean?
Do you see him as
deviant or not?
(look carefully at the
definition of
deviance!)
Are crime and deviance connected?
Place the cards on the grid where you think they
belong.
Extremely deviant
Murder
Illegal behaviour
with severe
punishment
Legal
behaviour
10 Mins
‘Normal’ behaviour
Extremely deviant
Murder
Illegal behaviour
with severe
punishment
Legal behaviour
‘Normal’ behaviour
• Criminal
behaviour
Most ___________ is considered _______. For example,…
• Deviant
behaviour
However, not all ________ is seen as _________. For
• Deviant
example,…
• Deviance
• Deviant acts
• Criminal
Many ___________ are also officially classified as
__________. For example,…
However, not all ________ is considered as _________ in
10 Mins
the eyes of the law. For example,…
Challenge: Why are there differences of opinion
about what counts as deviant behaviour?
• Criminal
behaviour
• Deviant
behaviour
• Deviant
C
D
Most ___________
is considered _______.
For example,…
C
D
However, not all ________
is seen as _________.
For
example,…
• Deviance
• Deviant acts
• Criminal
D
Many ___________
are also officially classified as
C
__________.
For example,…
D
C
However, not all ________
is considered as _________
in
the eyes of the law. For example,…
• Criminal
behaviour
• Deviant
behaviour
C
Criminal
D
Deviant
Most ___________
is considered _______.
For example,…
behaviour
Deviant/
C
D
Criminal
However, not all ________
is seen as _________.
For
deviance
behaviour
• Deviant
example,…
• Deviance
• Deviant acts
• Criminal
Deviant
D
Many ___________
acts
are also officially classified as
C
__________.
For example,…
Criminal
behaviour/
criminal
Deviance/
deviant
D
However, not all ________
behaviour
criminal
C
is considered as _________
in the eyes of the law. For example,…
Questions to answer…
• Explain what sociologist mean by the term
‘deviance’ (4 marks)
• Explain the difference between crime and
deviance (4 marks)
• Deadline Friday 12th Sept
10 Mins
Plenary…
• How confident are you in explaining the
difference between crime and deviance
Exam questions
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Criminal behaviour
Deviant behaviour
Disapproval
Norms
Abnormal
Subjective
Context
Location
Culture
Historical
Socially constructed
Socially defined
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Explain what sociologists
mean by deviance.
(4 marks)
•
Explain the difference
between crime and
deviance. (4 marks)
•
Explain what sociologists
mean by ‘the social
construction’ of crime
and deviance. (4 marks)
Spitting in the
street
Murder
‘Burping’ after a
meal
Downloading
music off the
internet
Eating smelly
food on a bus
Driving over the
speed limit
Playing loud
Spraying graffiti
music at home at onto a train
2am
Smoking in a
restaurant in
2005
Smoking in a
restaurant in
2012
Pushing into a
queue
Shoplifting
Drinking a can of
beer on the bus
Keeping money
you have been
given in error in
the supermarket
A student ‘copies
and pastes’ their
homework from
Wikipaedia
Spitting in the
street
Murder
‘Burping’ after a
meal
Downloading
music off the
internet
Eating smelly
food on a bus
Driving over the
speed limit
Playing loud
Spraying graffiti
music at home at onto a train
2am
Smoking in a
restaurant in
2005
Smoking in a
restaurant in
2012
Pushing into a
queue
Shoplifting
Keeping money
you have been
given in error in
the supermarket
A student ‘copies
and pastes’ their
homework from
Wikipaedia
Drinking a can of
beer on the bus
Deviance
Behaviour that is disapproved of or seen as
abnormal in a society. Such behaviour will not
conform to society's norms and values and may
disturb the social order.
Crime
Behaviour that breaks the written laws of a country.
Underline the key words within the definitions (if there are any words
you are unsure of, look at your glossary).
Challenge question: Who or what influences what is seen as deviant?
Extremely deviant
Illegal behaviour
with severe
punishment
Legal behaviour
‘Normal’ behaviour