1. Crime and Deviance

2. Norms and Sanctions Every social group has norms and Sanctions
Review: What are…
social norms
Formal norms
Informal norms
Positive Sanctions
Negative Sanctions
Norms and Sanctions

3. All Crime is Deviance, but not all deviance is crime
Deviance: violation of a informal norms
Crime: violation of formal norms
What are examples of deviance?
What are some examples of crime?
Crime .V. Deviance

4. Who are criminals On your Ipad go to: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted
In your notes write and answer the following questions
Pick a criminal
Who Is your Criminal
Name
Crime
Why do you think this person became a criminal
Do you think your criminal was born bad or did society play a role?
Who are criminals

5. Are all criminals born bad
Some are ( these people are left to psychology), but crime and criminals are not black and white issues.
Rational Choice (Economics Again!):
Rational choice says that all people evaluate the pros and cons of their choices
In your note book answer these questions
Find a crime and is sentence (punishment)
What are the costs and benefits of this crime
Why would someone break this law?
Are all criminals born bad

6. Edward Snowden: Hero or Criminal
edward-snowden-why
Edward Snowden: Hero or Criminal

7. Funny Laws In Colorado Guess the City?
You can not drive a black car on Sundays
Denver
It is illegal to go in public dressed in clothes “unbecoming” on one’s sex.
Durango
It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep.
Logan County
It is illegal to crash into obstacles on a ski slope.
Vail
Funny Laws In Colorado

8. Is Crime Normal? Crime occurs in every society Laws:
are in place to stop someone from doing something they would be tempted to do
Laws cover situations, in which, they will be enforced
Short Answer: Laws are meant to be broken
Is Crime Normal?

9. Crime Is Helpful to Society! (Sorry the pirate in me is showing)
Benefits Of Crime (an argument)
Provides Unity
“Breaking Bad”
From Unity Comes Change
American Revolution
From Change comes Evolution
Crime Is Helpful to Society! (Sorry the pirate in me is showing)

10. Crime “Changes” Crime is constantly evolving/ changing with society
Examples:
Abortion
Drugs
More?
Laws do not always apply to everyone
It is up to the courts to prove the offender committed the crime
Crime “Changes”

11. ALL CRIME HAS CONSEQUENCES
Three reasons for consequences
Deterrence: Punishment for committing crime
Prevention: Keep criminals from committing more crime
Reformation: change circumstances (re- socialize)
ALL CRIME HAS CONSEQUENCES

12. How Much and What kind of punishment should we deal out?
Punishment is not Free
The U.S. prison population is more than 2.4 million
That means more than one out of every 100 American adults is behind bars.
minimum-security federal prison costs $21,000/per inmate each year.
maximum-security federal prisons costs $33,000/ per inmate each year.
Federal prison costs are expected to rise to 30 percent of the Department of Justice's budget by
How Much and What kind of punishment should we deal out?

13. The single largest driver in the increase in the federal prison population since 1998 is longer sentences for drug offenders.
The most serious charge against 51 percent of inmates is a drug offense. Only four percent are in for robbery and only one percent are in for homicide.
War on Drugs

14. How Much and What kind of punishment should we deal out?
Incarceration can cause crime
A street university
Theft
Drugs
Gang populations
Grudge against society
How Much and What kind of punishment should we deal out?

15. How Much and What kind of punishment should we deal out?
Ted Talk: treat crime like a disease
In you notes answer this question (use evidence to back up answers)
How should we treat crime?
How Much and What kind of punishment should we deal out?

16. Alternative Punishment Presentations
Slide 1: What is your Alternative Punishment?
Slide 2: How does this punishment solve the Prison Crisis?
Slide 3: How does it improve criminal rehabilitation?
Slide 4: How does it improve society?
Slide 5: How will it improve the economy?
Slide 6:Counter argument: Why would a prison sentence work better than your alternative?
For each slide include:
Evidence (sources) to prove your argument (slides 1-6)