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0:12 all right guys um welcome back to lesson three uh today we're just going to be looking over we're starting off with crime and Devi starting off in module two for this lesson um this video will be short because we're not going going over the perspectives of crime today that would make the video very long so we're just going to go over the definitions um of crime and devian some of the key Concepts and terms we're going over social order control and we're going to talk about the Agents of social control as well their importance how they work with each other and everything so um we'll get into the lesson now with crime and
1:05 devious so a lot of students they tend not to be able to really use the term of crime and devance properly within esss so they mix up what is a crime and what is a div and so what we really need to understand is that a crime is a deviance but a deviance is not a crime right so a crime is a wrong against the state um it is an offense or wrongful act done by an individual that undermines the laws of a country or break the laws and for Crime it is punishable by law so in other
1:58 words anything that breaks the law is a crime once it is a law it is using the Constitution it is written and you break it it and um it's a crime and of course it is punishable by the state so it's not people who punish you it's the law it's the state the court system you get getting punishment by that so imprisonment um and other for M as well that is a crime now for Devi so devian is a norm breaking Behavior some people in society would find such behaviors
2:44 offensive and which excites or would excite if it were discovered so disapproval you know punishment um condemnation or a hostility so deviance it is the violation of social rules norms and conventions looking into the type of deviance now you have formal devian and so with formal deviant formal deviant is a crime anything that is a crime is a formal devance and formal
3:30 arises when an individual commits an act that violates the established laws of society formal devant um they would include murder robbery assault rape and so forth and a formal deviant um is therefore a a criminal so anyone a formal deviant would be a criminal simple as that and it would result in fines and other formal punishments any Capital punishments um incarceration as well going to prison now informal deviance now is that which arises when an individual or
4:18 a group of individuals as well may become slightly nonconformist to the general trends of society by this their actions May raise an eyebrow but are not legal at all so for example um let's see you could look at informal devant such as like picking the nose right we don't don't want to consider that Snee you know that everybody it's fine to sneeze one time when sneeze a second time you know that that's going to raise eyebrow remember during that was wor sneezing during was like a
5:04 formal deviance that was like a crime but then you know um in Jamaica or what else using Jamaica um the sing of the pants a lot of people don't like to see it it's considered um to have Bad Manners as well as well you know bleaching the the skin as well a lot of informal deviant right and so what it would result in informal devons would result in like not not not capital punishment but like social sanctions and stigmas so people might isolate themselves from you they might call your names maybe your parent might curse at you or so on it's it's um it that would be
5:56 an that would be the form of um punishment ORS would get maybe deci take away the the phone from so you realiz that for informal div is not a wrong against the state it's simply it it would be uh wrong that people don't agree with in simple terms and so punishment for informal devance does not involve the state at all now looking at the characteristics of deviant so for devian it is a condition belief or behavior devian can be more than just Behavior as
6:47 well it can be frame of mind it can be a frame of mind as well like looking obesity maybe like f people overall um HIV AIDS and cancer can be considered deviant conditions and so you realize that it's not just actions alone it can really just be based on you know beliefs the condition of a person as well um and you'll understand that devian it varies from society to society so what is deviant in one Society may not another society as so in some Caribbean societies obia is
7:40 viewed as deviant and associated with negative connotations and so legal systems in certain countries have even criminalized the practice of obia for Jamaica do obia of 1898 made it illegal to practice obia and that was punish by imprisonment and say I understand where even um in some Caribbean countries such as 80 where they would practice OB it's fine over there but in Jamaica they getting in prison over here so you see where it varies from society to society so
8:33 deviant devian is not fix it's not a fix condition of six standards or anything as long as a set or a group of people don't agree with it is considered de also as well additionally Dan and rism was not accepted in the past but no it's in our faces and it has become a norm you know it wasn't accepted back then because it was considered um deviant you know Ras safarian movement was all about um being against Christianity and all were many um political problems there were riots
9:21 as well the police had a problem with them to the point where they were even um pretty much executing them or just cutting off their lock as well we know that Dan was um back then was really seen as a deant because it involve a lot of you know guns violence and all type things and so you understand that devian it can be formal or informal um it can change over time because people's perspective change over time as well this means that devian is a this would mean that devian would be like a social concept and is dictated by social actions behaviors and beliefs as
10:11 well now look at the social construction of De it can be argued that deviance is more than Behavior because it involves the moral judgment that is made by one person against another and so you understand that with so with the social construction of deviance actions deemed deviant very across societies what is considered de in
11:02 one Society may be normalized in another and we could for example if we want to compare the United States with the Caribbean culture we know that over their homosexuality the lgbtq community they are generally accepted and they have laws protecting them and laws that new laws established for that Community as well within the Caribbean it is not normalized while it may exist we don't we simply don't normalize it we um we ultimately see it as a deviant due to the fact that it's not
11:48 part of our culture I you know many goes and say that the reason why you know looking at like many dat it back to slavery the culture we don't tend to like homosexuality as well and so on so yeah um and so that is where you understand that it is necessary to consider the social construction of div just how exactly does Dev come into our society what role does it play um what does it do how made a fect someone as well and so it is not it's not possible to find something that is
12:39 condemned by all societies right so every society is completely different you know um societies tend to develop differently they tend to also um they can also develop different interpretations of deviant or non deviant behaviors even within one Society what is deviant today may not be deviant tomorrow and you could consider social changes that have occurred in the Caribbean such as the voting of the blacks you know that you know um during slavery colonization where did black stand
13:28 with in the courts they were they simply you were going to jail if you block even if you didn't do the crime you were going to jail the jury was white the judge was white there wasn't a black person in the court well I believe they had um the colored section of the Court where the colored would see it and the other would see it as well but they weren't they weren't able to do anything they weren't able to Def defend for themselves now blacks are voted all across the world whether they immigrant or they from the country itself they can they can vote they can participate you know the acceptance of Dan music um gambling the rest of fism which at one point were considered deviant
14:19 yeah and so you see that um devian is not fixed it's interchangeable within cultures and society as well you have various factors which would influence the relativity of crime and deviance and these would include the culture the social situation the historical period um the interest of those creating the laws as well because um maybe people would look down un like um look let's say rasism right using rasism the country would most likely see it as a deviant being that it's it's
15:07 kind of it's kind of a rebellious movement and so perhaps they don't want the children of the country to grow up with that mindset so it is seen as a deviant while it may not necessarily be the devant itself may not necessarily be bad because you know that R movement was positive it was all about promoting the black culture negritude and you know P africanism movements all type of so it was good but at at the same time the country would see it as a deviant due to the behaviors the words that are being spread and so on um yeah so even as it relates to the historical period as well
15:59 I guess you could look at um the crime or the deviant act so the 1800s versus the 1900s you know that those were different time period as well so um a lot of things back then compared to now where there are more Liberty and more equality you can understand why the devance would change you know there are far more acts Human Rights Acts out there so things aren't going to be considered devant equality is being pushed as well being pushed a lot and you know one could suggest that all societies would see murder rape as devons but it's it's it's debatable you
16:45 know it's debate because once again as we say not all Society um considers the um like the share of condemn the same form of deons as well but I don't know maybe maybe maybe it is you know Murder R maybe it is considered Dev within all socities but who knows you have a lot of cannibalistic Society so if we're looking at cannibalistic societies um perhaps murder wouldn't um they probably accept murder right there but like I said it's debatable now we're going to
17:36 move to social order and social control our second topic right and so put um crime and evance are often associated with enemy a state in which a societ previously common norms and values disintegrate or disappear enemy can lead to break down in social order contributing to higher rates of crime and deviant behavior and so we understand that social order and social control exist in order to deviate some of these actions and negative impacts on the society
