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
A world without crime would be a society of saints, and although crime might not be prevalent,
deviance would still be present in minor things like not being clean or speaking too loudly. It would
spark less innovation and less social change.

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 would be a white-collar crime, because it is nonviolent and financially motivated but it is not
committed by the corporation (TOTS) as a whole. Your boss is unaware that the rail was paid for, and
therefore it is only on the professional worker and not the business.

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
This would be a corporate crime because the illegal activity is running through the business and is
financially motivated through the company, not an individual. If the doorman was being tipped by the
underage kids, then that would be white-collar because the business wasnt aware of the illegal activity,
but the business breaking the law constitutes corporate crime.


4) What is the difference between white collar crime and corporate crime? 4 pts
Both of these deal in the business world yet the difference between the two is that corporate crime
benefits investors or people in high positions in the business and has the businesss interests in mind
when performing the illegal activity. These crimes promote the business as a whole and are not
privately motivated. White-collar crime is privately motivated not necessarily by the investors or by
people maintaining high positions. These crimes are committed by professionals for personal gain, not
business gain.

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
This is structural deviance, because the law sets up a situation that targets certain people and is biased
against the race that lives there. It is also double jeopardizing the people convicted of felonies, because
they have already served their sentence and can now no longer live in their own neighborhood. It is
indirect discrimination because up front it does not appear to discriminate against a certain race, but it
does in fact have bias against the Latinos because theyre the more prevalent and targeted group in the
neighborhood.