Crime and Drugs Crime 04 06 2011 Crime is normal a society without it is impossible because even a city of saints will creates sinners A society will always have people that go against social norms N Norm D Deviance A crime that has no negative affect on people Ex Prostitution White collar crime has to deal with more corporate crime because it Victimless Crime Secondary Deviance Organized Crime White Collar Corporate Crime is a high paying top job Harder to prove crime Political Crime Racial Profiling Plea Bargaining Capital Punishment Parole Recidivism Rate Price Fixing Tax Evasion War on Crime Labeling Accounting Malpractices Endangering Consumers Suggests that we can live in a crime free utopian type of world Today California spends about 40 000 per prisoner every year Spends less money on education for students 3 out of 10 Americans are cheating on their income taxes Porn is seen as free speech The Law favors upper class Educated rather then the uneducated Power vs powerless Drug Moral Panic Anything that effects you physically th Criminal offense Policing Boarder protection Limiting supply abroad Psychopharmacology the study of drug induced changes in mood sensation thinking and behavior Interdiction Harm Reduction Example boarder protection The way a society acts to reduce harm with drugs Heroin Maintenance Decriminalization vs Legalization Temperance movement Prohibition and Catholics Legislation against Opium and Chinese immigrants Legislation against marijuana and Mexicans and African Americans Environment Political System 04 06 2011 We have to cut carbon use by 50 in the next years How o Idea of capital flight Capital Flight Since 1945 we have spread out throughout the United States Population density is low Chicago needs more transportation Externalized Costs Free Rider problem Planned Obsolescence Perceived Obsolescence Planet of slums Humans are peacocks Recycling helps designed for the dump designed so that things will break in a certain amount of years so people have to buy a new one But a lot of objects either are too toxic to recycle OR are not designed to be recyclable Health Care 04 06 2011 Public health care does not work for a profit We have to cut back on spending for environmental reasons also Private health care Most health care is Two systems Medicaid Medicare The uninsured Veterans receive health care after they serve Pre existing conditions Cannot receive health care with one Defensive medicine Expensive People usually do not get healthcare because they are too in debt to afford it Defensive medicine Doctors are better paid in the US then many other developed countries o Ex Doctors in Germany made about 60 000 5 years in o School is very expensive Technology Profits 25 administrative Externalities Bismarck Prussia started the first universal healthcare said that if he gave his people a lot of economic rights health care then he didn t have to give them as many civil rights Why don t we have universal health care in the US We want to keep it a profitable organization Some people do not like to support others o Pay for others health care Civil rights Economic Rights o Freedom voting rights to organize o Health care Medicaid Medicare unemployment limited work day laws against child labor HMO s vs Help preventive care o Regular checkups and tests o Uninsured end up paying more then they would have if they were given the opportunity to have regular check ups Keep costs down Necessary care may NOT be given PPO s Cost of Healthcare o 2 trillion dollars spent on health care o 20 of the federal 676 billion dollars was spent on Medicare and Medicaid Medicine o We pay a lot more in the US for medicine because It s a profitable industry Costs to the system No power to bargain with companies this would reduce costs people of higher risk occupations have been denied coverage example firefighters France and Italy have the top healthcare systems Health Drugs Crime Individualist culture o Eat badly o Lack of exercise o Genetics o Drugs Why do people do drugs Social pressure Rituals Pleasure Boredom Pain killing o Crime o War Cultural Alternative direction for success Cultural Serving our country Runs in the family Humans are violent by nature Terrorism Vengeance Sex Religious Fanaticism o Consumerism Fun Diversion Structural o Price of food o Fast Food industry o Crime Education Secondary Deviance o War o Religion Military and government complex Imperialism control of resources Interests Perception of Injustice o Consumerism Advertising Consumer Credit Perceived Obsolescence Marketing People are Peacocks education 04 06 2011 Type of education depends on Public school is financed through districts so the richer the area the better the school quality inequalities in quality o finance Cycle of poverty cost university education inequality quality and quantity of teachers quality of facilities richer the school the more opportunities huge difference in how a high school education looks and a college new poor old poor based on a reading test the US was rated 15th why do people come to the united states You make a lot more money with education We are doing technologically well Education Individual Culture o Family Values Discipline Structural o Family Time constraints Financial Responsibilities o Differences in quality of the public education Big gap when it comes to groups when it comes to graduation Whites blacks Asians etc 10 goes to private schools 2 are homeschooled how education is paid for if your in the top 20 of families then your 5 times more likely to go to 57 state 9 federal government 34 local district taxes college unequal childhoods working class o accomplishment by natural growth concerted cultivation different social classes raise their children different middle more involved with school activities working free in the way they want to grow up more middle class students get incentives Income Public Schools Funding Cycle of Poverty Equality Means opportunity Ends Labor Market o Hierarchy Education Imagined Community self fulfillment ways of thinking networking discipline Solutions Competition o Cheating o Test centered o Critical thinking o Creativity Graduation Centralization Quality of Teachers We think about education as the only way of succeeding but most middle upper class kids will be okay because you learn a lot outside of school Sending poor kids to good schools help a lot work Social problems with jobs 04 06 2011 Wage inequality Benefits Ageism Cheap