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Deviance and Social Control

Deviance and Social Control. Social Control. The methods by which social groups try to ensure conformity. Prisons Laws Folkways mores Norms. Informal Social Controls everyday expectations -ie: stares, talk, ridicule, threats. Formal Social Controls

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Deviance and Social Control

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  1. Deviance and Social Control

  2. Social Control • The methods by which social groups try to ensure conformity. • Prisons • Laws • Folkways • mores • Norms

  3. Informal Social Controls everyday expectations -ie: stares, talk, ridicule, threats Formal Social Controls actions violate important social values and threaten social order and well-being. written down in Canada’s Criminal Code -ie: law courts, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, sports rules, school rules Types of Social Control

  4. Bibby and Posterski’s categories of major and minor social controls(page294)

  5. PRISONS AS INSTITUTIONS FOR SOCIAL CONTROL The main purpose of prisons are: • Intended to cause hardship as a form of punishment • A way to remove dangerous individuals from society • Seen as a deterrent to discourage criminals and would-be criminals from breaking the law • To rehabilitate the offender through training and counselling

  6. Do prisons achieve these goals???

  7. ALTERNATIVES TO PRISON • Full Parole -release from prison under supervision • -has conditions • -must serve a minimum of • 1/3 sentence

  8. Day Parole -parolee can work or go to school during the day, but must report to the institution at night. • -4 months to 1 year

  9. Temporary absences • -short term release -no greater than 3 days -medical, humanitarian or administrative reasons

  10. Mandatory Supervision -reward for good behaviour -usually 2/3 through sentence -release by law -subject to same regulations as those on full parole

  11. Probation • -alternative to imprisonment -probation officer -must remain in certain area -can be sent back to prison if person does not comply

  12. Community Service • -work for a prescribed number of hours in the community -work often related to nature of their offence

  13. Fines • -less serious criminal offences -traffic offences

  14. Read E.C. Deloria’s article • What advantages are there to looking for and expanding alternatives to prison?

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