Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

Comprehensive Bachelor of Science in Sociology covering sociological theory, social stratification, research methods, deviance and crime, family, urban sociology, education, medical sociology, and contemporary issues

Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

Theories of Deviance and Crime

Durkheim on deviance, strain theory (Merton), labeling theory (Becker), differential association (Sutherland), social control theory (Hirschi), critical criminology

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Labeling Theory and Social Construction of Deviance

Becker's *Outsiders* (1963), Lemert's primary/secondary deviance, Goffman on stigma, and the role of moral entrepreneurs in defining deviance.

Criminal Justice, Punishment, and Mass Incarceration

Foucault's Discipline and Punish, mass incarceration (Alexander), racial disparities, restorative justice, prison abolition debates, surveillance

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Mass Incarceration and Racial Inequality

Bruce Western's *Punishment and Inequality in America* (2006), Michelle Alexander's *The New Jim Crow*, and William Stuntz on the collapse of American criminal justice.

Social Control, Moral Panics, and Drug Policy

Formal and informal social control, Foucault's panopticism, moral panics (Cohen), war on drugs, decriminalization, medicalization of deviance

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Policing, Surveillance, and Discipline

Foucault's *Discipline and Punish*, panopticism, the predictive-policing debates, and the post-Ferguson reform landscape.