Crime Deviance and Social Control 04 15 2013 Harrison Narcotics Act make sure it s not a federal intervention South Stories of African America men getting high on cocaine and going on shooting sprees bf History of drug prohibition is deeply intertwined with racial and ethnic prejudices Irish getting foothold in city politics Anti German and anti Irish Taxing and regulation Connection between Mexican laborers and marijuana smoking Drugs in social context History deeply connect with race and ethnicity o While some drug markets open up others close o DMT o Ireland is currently crisis with value o Some drugs used in youth movements unexpected Social Structure drugs became hot button political issue o Waves of interest in drug use Hard for politician to be successful if they don t take a prohibitionist stand to drugs o International stop flow of illegal drugs between borders countries Supporting some drug dealers and opposing others Support defeat global interest The group and the individual rationality and agency o People make conscious decision to use drugs or not o Factors that structure peoples choices The body fucks everything up Righteous Dopefiend Moral Economy similar set of values that inform them when to hustle and when to not when to share and when to not Habitus our deepest likes dislikes and our permanent dispositions including those of our existing body deeply engrained culture misrecognize it as instinct or common sense Symbolic violence homeless addicts experience physical violence also experience blocked opportunities and economic marginalization poverty is a type of violence Lumpen Abuse Lumpen proletariat poorest of the poor no class consciousness abuse that the poorest of the poor experience internalize abuse come to believe they are the scum of the earth Intimate apartheid system of racial segregation in south Africa Jim Crow Law s refers to legal segregation that was going on in South Africa in an intimate sense Neoliberalism structures the experience of addiction and homelessness in the encampment economics liberalism historical moment where free market policies reign and there s a decline in social programs and government services changes start to occur in 70 s and 80 s deindustrialization caused disruption The closer we are in proximity the more likely we will feel empathy for victims of an incident Common collective conscience Rational choice theory RCT starts from assumption that criminals are rational commit Way to prevent is raise the cost of crime or make it harder to People weigh costs and benefits and act accordingly Bounded rationality make shortcuts based on imperfect information Gambling rationality is important because it is argued that humans do not maintain rationality Choice structuring properties shape our cost benefit analysis o Availability of certain items when shoplifting Soft targets vs hard targets marathons are considered soft targets o have to harden i e more security at events RCT explains small crimes like shoplifters More experienced shoplifters have better cost and benefits analysis o Less experienced shoplifters go for expensive items more likely to be reckless didn t notice certain security clues Suicide bombing Differential association theory Edwin Sutherland introduces idea in 1930 s o One of first modern criminologist o white collared crime o came up with DAT o thought about crime was that it came from psychologically deranged people CRIME IS LEARNED Learn technique Specific direction of motives drives rationalizations and attitudes Favorable or unfavorable definitions of legal codes Becomes delinquent because of excess of definitions favorable to code of laws Marijuana users depicted as psychologically normal Social process o Learning technique o Learning experience recognizes experiences as pleasurable through social processes Rational choice theory cost benefit analysis ends up choosing crime Marijuana vs alcohol and the effects on the brain Differential association theory peers influence other peers to develop certain attitudes Acquaintances wonder if one brother brainwashed the other Boston early peer pressure theory Speeding DAT we might learn that speeding is acceptable RCT Weighing cost and benefits might get ticket but risk is slim Child Abuse want RCT quickest way a parent can get their child to do something they DAT learn that abuse is ok if abuser grew up in abusive household Symbolic violence referring to the act where a person misunderstands inequality as either their own personal failing or the natural order of things Lumpen the historical fall out of large scale long term transformations in the organization of the economy Members of lumpen have no productive raison d etre Expelled from engagement Neoliberal advocate free market Milton Friedman Thomas Friedman Shrinking of world Decline of government controls over market o Soccer stadium massacre 70 s Drug consumption as racialized habitus Something racial and deeply engrained in the ways people are using drugs in Edgewater Racial differences in drug consumption Symbolic violence of public health outreach Iatrogenic pathology something that s created by the cure after affect Directed towards homeless from the healer greek hair loss during chemotherapy harm reduction drug control strategy target population is probably going to do the bad thing you don t want them to do allow them to do bad thing in the safest way possible comprehensive sex education bleach kits for dirty needles addicts why is methadone biopower in action refers to state imposing itself on human bodies o drug testing welfare recipients o KU employees have to pay 500 extra in health insurance Submit to biometric screening save 500 Improve health of ALL KU employees Methadone heroine substitute Often given in liquid form often at different clinics mid 70 s Vietnam vets Actually more addicting than heroine o Trading one addiction for another o No end game o Maintains addiction Creates secondary drug market around treatment centers Objectivist approach why do some people become criminals or deviants What are the factors that lead people to commit crimes Constructivist approach why are some behaviors seen as criminal or deviant and other behaviors are not Moral panic theory instances or events we overreact to as a society Labeling theory idea that behaviors are deviant only when society labels them as deviant Can mental health experts distinguish between sane and insane people Can you get out of