Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from SOCI at the 2000 level; or permission of the Department This course acquaints students with a sociological understanding of deviance, labelling and other forms of social control such as policing, prosecution and punishment. The course explores critical frameworks used to understand how deviance from social norms is labelled, framed, and acted upon by social institutions and structures like Law, Psychiatry and Medicine. This course draws upon foundational texts in Social Theory, Sociology of Health, Critical Criminology and Socio-legal Studies to provide rich context for understanding complex social problems such as violence, addiction, mental illness and anti-social behaviour. This course introduces Sociological methods for assessing our success, or failures, in tackling these social problems in contemporary life. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours)