1. Summary
Deviance is a departure from social norms. Deviances are divided into formal deviances and informal deviances. The formal deviances is to break the law. (illegal acts), and conversely, informal deviances are not actions that violate the law. informal deviances are actions that deviate from the cultural norms of the society.
Deviance is not just a bad thing. In functional theory, deviances play a role in distinguishing what should be done and what should not be done in the socio-cultural context.
On the contrary, deviance is also a bad thing. This is more so when it is an formal deviances.
Crime is an official deviances. To identify the crime situation, the government makes crime statistics.
When we look at statistics, actual crimes happen much more often than we know.
According to statistics in the US, the number of prison inmates is considerable, and there is a probability that some of them will be not criminal.
The rate of recidivism of US criminals is quite high, which means that the prison is insufficient in functioning to re-socialize prisoners. Social stigma on prisoners also contributes to high recidivism rates.
In this context, in order to reduce deviances, it is necessary to have re-socialization, which is called social control.
Types of social control include retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, societal protection
2. Interesting things
The part about the reoffense rate was interesting.
Criminals have difficulty in getting a job due to social stigma.
This leads to a crime again.
Therefore, the country should help the criminals settle in society after they are released from prison. It was also interesting to call this social control.
3. Discussion point
Criminals suffer from social stigma.
But is stigma bad?
Is not stigma the price of what they have done?
Should the stigma be eliminated or maintained?
Social stigma can be "The Scarlet Letter". However, the social stigma of criminals is also one of their atonement. So I think people should put a black mark carefully.
ReplyDeleteYour answer to question 3 is very interesting to me. I think that stigma can not be defined as good or bad. It is a social phenomenon. To me, stigma itself is seen as an informal punishment in social relations, beyond social control over sin.
ReplyDeleteHere, let me ask you a question. A sinner got a sphere. He ended his brother in the prison and returned to society. There are countless people pointing at him who have already been punished. But are these people deserving to point at him?
Second question. His sin was known to the world before this sinner entered the camp, and his family was also stigmatized. Even after he leaves the camp, his family still lives in the perception that he is a family of criminals. Are these stigmas justified as well?
Last question. If he wrote a stigma and was treated as a sinner by a wrong judgment, should he bear the weight of stigma?
In fact, in Korean society, a person's 'reputation' is all about him. In society, "stigmatization" will come to an individual with a very heavy weight. I think it is very dangerous because of the stigmatizing attitude.