Wednesday, December 3, 20149.1 Deviant Careers!!6 Themes in Literature on Deviant Careers!! 1. Entering deviance!! 2. Training and socialization !! 3. How their experience evolves over time!! 4. Exiting deviance!! 5. Post deviance!! 6. Deviant vs. legitimate careers!!4 Modes of Entering Deviance!! Why do people enter into deviant careers?!! 1. Defensively!! ! - Not something they feel good about but they feel backed into a corner!! ! - They have no other choice so deviance is rational!! ! - EX: Kill or be killed, failing out of school or take an aderal!! 2. Drift!! ! - Drift theory !! ! ! - Selling drugs - first your in the presence of it, then you participate, then you join in on buying it, share it with some friends that want to use it, then you start to sell it...!! 3. Conscious Decision!! ! - You know a drug dealer through a friend, I hate school and my job, drugs are legal now so why not sell some!! 4. Sponsorship!1Wednesday, December 3, 2014! ! - You cannot do all deviance on your own, so you get sponsored to learn the culture, the tricks of the trade, etc.
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