SS1 SOC 2024 Deviant Behavior

Quiz 5
Due Midnight 06/29/14
Instructions: Type your name at the top. Answer each question. Turn this back in as an attachment in
the quiz section. Do not pay much attention to style. You will be graded based solely on the answer you
provide. You may use only your book or powerpoint from the week unless stated otherwise in a
question.
Time Limit: 45 Minutes

1) Using the reading on Durkheim, explain why deviance may be necessary, include a discussion on
what society would look like without deviance? 6 pts
Durkheims basic idea was that if theres no deviance, then there will be no innovation, and
because of that there will be no social change. A society without deviance would basically be a
Saints Society and would not allow for social change. No Ideas would be able to evolve.

2) You are bartending at tots on Thursday. Its so busy the manager is all around the restaurant
making sure everything is okay. Someone hands you 10$ to pay for their rail and you pretend to
ring it up only to pocket the full 10$. Is this white collar crime or corporate crime? 2 pts
This is white collar crime because this is done for the gain of the individual. This is not being committed
by someone who is considered to be of high occupational status, but its for personal gain, and cannot
be corporate crime. Corporate crime is committed on behalf of a company.

3) In an effort to bring in more business, the owner of tots calls in the managers and the doormen
only. The owner tells them he wants under age patrons to be allowed in for the next couple of
weeks. Having no power the managers and doormen obey his orders. For the next couple of
weeks TOTS is booming in business until the day undercover ABC agents pay a visit. One
undercover is under age and is allowed in the bar. While inside other undercover agents see a
lot of customers who may not be of age. Using their communication skills they find that many
are underage. They approach the manager and shut down the bar. The owner is notified and
told he would face criminal charges. Is this white-collar crime or corporate crime? 2 pts
Corporate crime. He did this on behalf of the company .


4) What is the difference between white collar crime and corporate crime? 4 pts
White collar crime is committed by an individual of high status in a profession for personal gain.
Corporate crime is committed by those very high up in the corporations on behalf of a corporation.
5) A no-trespass policy is implemented in your neighborhood and is being enforced strictly. The
policy states that those who have been charged with any felony, who have been charged with
domestic assault, who are jeopardizing the safety and welfare of the community, or who
engage in any illegal act while on the property can and will be barred from the neighborhood for
life and if caught back on the property will be arrested for trespassing. You live in a low income
community that is predominantly Latino. The policy has questioned its constitutionality. Latinos,
including residents, are stopped and frisked at alarming rates, trespass arrests have shot up
considerably. Roughly 90% of those arrested have family that live in the neighborhood so the
policy has kept familys apart and even preventing fathers from seeing or even parenting their
own children. The police justify their action of stopping people frequently because the policy
allows them to and provides a means to get into peoples pockets to see if they have drugs.
Nonetheless, the amount of drugs taken in comparison to the amount of people stopped is too
low for the stops to be justifiable. The policy has thus also broken police-community relations
with many residents fearing the police or not trusting them at all. Is this individual deviance or
structural deviance? Is this direct or indirect institutional racism and explain why? 6 pts
Structural deviance. Because its being committed by an entire department in a neighborhood society
wide structure. Its enactment is organizational. I think its indirect racism . It makes an impact on the
Latino community at large, but I dont think these policies are there just to suppress Latinos specifically.
I think that, for the most part, its just vigilant policing, and police trying to do their job. At least that
looks like the case without any hard evidence to back this point up.