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Morals, Norms, Deviant Behavior, Criminal Behavior

Morals, Norms, Deviant Behavior, Criminal Behavior. Honor Killings. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0212_020212_honorkilling.html. What are your morals?. What is a moral?. Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior

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Morals, Norms, Deviant Behavior, Criminal Behavior

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  1. Morals, Norms, Deviant Behavior, Criminal Behavior

  2. Honor Killings http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0212_020212_honorkilling.html

  3. What are your morals?

  4. What is a moral? • Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior • Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior • Rules or habits of conduct with reference to standards of right and wrong

  5. Examples of Morals • The Ants and the Grasshopper The ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime. A grasshopper, quite hungry, passed by and begged for a little food. The ants asked him, "Why didn't you gather up food during the summer?" He replied, "I as too busy having fun to work. I passed the days singing." They then said in mockery: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance without supper to bed in the winter." • Moral: One can not get through life without a little work

  6. What is a norm? • A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.

  7. What is a norm to you?

  8. Examples of Norms • Social Norm – looking at the door when you get on an elevator • Cultural Norm – Bathing daily • Religious Norm – Southern Baptist – NO dancing • Personal Norm – Singing with the radio

  9. What isdeviant behavior to you?

  10. Deviant Behavior • Deviant behavior is behavior that violates social norms; deviance becomes crime when the behavior violates social norms that are expressed as criminal law

  11. Deviant Behavior • Is defined by those in charge. • Spying with out warrants in the United States ?

  12. Some deviant behaviors of old • The World is round. • The Earth revolves around the Sun. • Pregnancy being seen on television. • Interracial marriage. • Girls wearing pants. • Boys with earrings.

  13. Examples of deviant behavior that are not criminal • Wearing a swimsuit to a formal party • Not looking at the door when you get on an elevator • Dyeing your hair pink with green polka dots • Tattooing a slogan on your forehead for profit

  14. Deviance can be good • Civil Rights movement • Interracial marriage • Music • What can you think of ?

  15. Deviant Behavior v. Criminal Behavior • Deviant behavior is breaking a social norm. • Criminal behavior is defined as violating of a social norm that has been requires of prohibited by a law. • A deviant behavior is not always a criminal behavior.

  16. How do we define Criminal Behavior? • First we must remember that our laws in the United States are based on the morals of those who first created them. • Most of the laws in the United States have religious bases. • Killing, stealing, assault, and bearing false witness are taught in many of the world religions.

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