Normality Of Crime

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Through the course of this class there were four topics that really interested me and had me engaging in conversations about it outside of class time. The topics were deviance, moral panics, medicine, and privilege. Specifically the article on the normality of crime, the privilege at Amherst article, satanic daycare centers article, and the crazy like us article. In the normality of crime article talked about how crime is essential to have a functioning society and that it is impossible to have any type of society that crime or deviance is not present. Crime which is viewed as being deviant keeps a hierarchy in place so everyone knows their place and who is at the bottom. This also causes a reason for a person to rebel against what is the norm and others would look down upon them. While reading this article I agreed with the author due to the fact that this is what happens every day. Someone always has to be judged for something in order for someone else to be superior. …show more content…

Especially how the men’s sport team would engage in behavior that was unacceptable as well as disgusting. The author hit this one right on the nail, he explained how these white young men thought they had the right to say and do these things because of what they look like and where they came from. This article really just made me think more about how people will automatically think they are better because they come from money or because of their

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