Social Control And Deviance Discussion

Social Control And Deviance Discussion
Deviance Writing Assignment
PLEASE NOTE: The images are located in this module and also linked from this assignment.
Write out your answers to the questions below and submit it using the course Dropbox. Be sure to show data obtained where appropriate.
Please relate theories and concepts from the text to the material in this assignment. Show me how well you understand the reading. Do not simply give your opinions on the results.
The textbook and the power points gave you a number of statistics about various crimes. In this project, you will use several different data sets to look at crime and its relationship to various social and economic conditions in the United States.
If you want the original data set, use this website: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/
Social Control And Deviance Discussion
Part I:
Question 1:
Before you begin, make a quick list of the states that you think would have the highest rates of crime.
In the first part of this data exercise you will be using data on property crime rates by state. Look at the map below which shows property crime rates by state. A lower crime rate means fewer crimes per 100000 people in that state. Then look up your own state. Remember, RATES means the number per 100,000 population, not the number of crimes. You would expect a larger number of crimes in states with more people, which is why “rate” controls for the size of the population. What are your results? Did any state on your list match the states that have the highest/lowest rates of crime? How well did you predict your own state?
Property Crime Rates 2018.png
Alaska and Hawaii are not shown on this map – both are shaded purple also.
Social Control And Deviance Discussion
Part II:
There have been various theories on crime, the most influential of which are discussed in the power point slides and in the text. While it would be difficult to fully explore each theory in a short assignment such as this, let’s look at some factors that have been explored in relation to the theories. As such for the next question, you will look at education, poverty and employment rates (three factors that might indicate the presence or absence of “blocked opportunities” discussed in the Strain Theory), incarceration rates (deterrence theory) and religion (Control Theory). You may use the maps I have included or follow these links directly to get the information.
EDUCATION:
Map of percentage of population 25 and older with bachelor’s degree or higher; from Census Bureau
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/inte…
POVERTY:
Poverty rate.png
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2018-poverty-rate.html (Links to an external site.)
UNEMPLOYMENT:
map unemployment rate.png
https://www.bls.gov/lau/maps/stseries.pdf (Links to an external site.)
INCARCERATION RATE:
Incarceration rates by state for 2019
The Facts