Unit 6 Goals
During this unit, you will:
- Examine the nature of deviance, and study how and why people engage in deviant behavior and develop deviant personalities;
- Understand the way members of society engage in social control to reaffirm and uphold general social norms;
- Link deviance and social control to broader forms of social organization in modern industrial societies;
- Study the U.S. criminal justice system and understand how the ways that crimes are defined, investigated, prosecuted and punished in the U.S. establishes and upholds our rational-legal system of organization.
Unit 6 Objectives
Upon completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Define deviance and explain various ways that members of society work together to control deviant behavior;
- Define social control and explain the relationship between norms, deviance and social control;
- List and describe four ways in which deviance is functional for society;
- Identify at least seven types of crimes and explain the characteristics of each;
- Name the three branches that together comprise the U.S. criminal justice system, and explain the functions of each.