Attitudinal Deviant Crime

1. One of Becker’s first variations is the act becoming deviant over time. Child abuse has always been a deviant crime, but the act of reporting it wasn’t done very often. In “the early 1960s, all states were required to pass laws that required designated professionals to report specified types of child maltreatment.” Those professionals being doctors, as they could tell what a “serious physical injury” was and what a “nonaccidental injury” was. This over time lead more states to expand the reporting laws and now a days most professionals who deal with children have to right and are required to report child abuse if they suspect it. Becker’s second variations is “who commits the act and who feels harmed”. With the Child abuse …show more content…
Folkways and conditional deviances match each other. Folkway deviance would be violating some type of tradition. Whether that be dress, food, religion. Conditional can be looked as how you look, social status and it most often times you were born into it (ascribed). So if you are ascribed in a religion such as Islam into America that is very Christian, you are breaking a folkway and are committing conditional deviance. Mores and attitudinal deviance match together as well. Violating mores would be to violate moral judgment; and attitudinal deviance is the deviance of beliefs or thoughts. So if you were to come to America from somewhere that believes incest is okay and start telling people that, you will one be looked at like a freak, two probably have the cops called on you, and three be violating the moral judgment of the culture you are in. Cause from wherever this person may be that this was okay, here it is not okay, and will be looked at with a lot of disdain. The law of the pairs to be matched is behavioral deviance and laws. Laws is pretty straight forward, it’s the violation of laws that have been set in place by a culture. Behavioral deviance is what you do, several examples being smoking, protesting, or cheating. Now these two go together because behavioral deviance is the only ABC’S of deviance where you can purposely break a law with what you do, unless you were born a Jew in the 1940’s in Germany (in which case a conditional form of deviance …show more content…
If I were to conduct an investigation into the studying habits among CU freshman, I would probably pick to do a survey. The power of the survey to me is being able to send it out to all the freshman I know and they would all be asked the exact same questions. There would be no answer that could be something else based on how a person asked it face to face. The only bad part about the survey is the cost. The cost for a survey is high, you have to make the questions and then print them out and the amount of paper and the amount of ink needed to print a large amount of surveys can get very expensive. The time aspect of the survey isn’t so bad, sure you have to sit down and make the questions and then enter data when you get them back, but in the meantime there is very little for you to do. Except to wait for your results. The approach is very objective which is good when you are trying to figure out studying habits. The accuracy of a survey will generally be pretty good, but not always the best. Some people may lie to you even though you aren’t face to face to them and they are anonymous, they don’t want the chance of you knowing what they actually do. And overall you can generalized a survey pretty well after you enter all of your data. A face to face survey would take a lot of time as you have to talk to every person or train people to talk to people. But then they might ask the question differently than you what could cause the participant to answer the

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