CRIME & DEVIANCE

Crime and Deviance

• Defination of crime
● an action aur omission that constitutes and offence that may be
prosecuted by the state and is punished by law.

• Defination of deviance
● Norms and rules and expectations by which members of society are
conventionally guided. Deviance is an absence of conformity to these
norms. Social norms differ from culture to culture. For example, in one
society that breaks a social norm there, but may be normal for another
society.
Crime & Deviance - Differentiation
● What is the defference between crime and deviance?
● • Deviance is violation of social norms whereas crime is violation of laws
of the land.
● • agent of control for debiance are societal pressure and fear of Gods
whereas agents of control for crime are police and judiciary.
● • society has no coercive power of punishment to tackle crime.
● • deviance can be criminal or non criminal, but is always criminal in
nature.
● • Many behaviors that were have today become the deviant behaviors.
● • violation of law makes devians a crime.
● • deviance is not considered as severe as a crime.
Crime and deviance
DEVIANCE: BEHAVIOUR BELIEFS OR CONDITIONS THAT VIOLET
CULTURAL NORMS

NO ACT OR BELIEF IS INHERENTLY DIVIDENT

● REALITY TO TIME AND CULTURE

● SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED
Crime and deviance
● FUNCTIONALIST VIEW OF DEVIANCE DURKHEIM

● DEVIANCE OCCURS IN ALL SOCIETIES

● DEVIANCE CLARIFIES RULES

● DEVIANCE UNITES A GROUP

● DEVIANCE PROMOTES SOCIAL CHANGE

Primary and Secondary Deviance
Crime and deviance
causation of crime

● Overpopulation ● Depression & other

● Poverty social & mental
● Politics disorders
● Racism ● Drugs
● Tv violence ● Victim of unfair
● Regionalism rulings and the
● Family condition correction system
Crime and deviance
Deviant Behavior
Deviant Behavior
Examples
● Picking of nose in public
● Nacked exposure in public Types of Deviant
● Licking of ground Behavior
● Binge drinking
● Homicide • Formal Deviance
● Suicide • Informal Deviance
● Theft
● Robbery
● Rape
● Prostitution
Crime and deviance - Types of crime

● Murder and
manslaughter
● Rape
● Robbery
● Assault
● Burglary
● Larceny - theft
● Auto theft
Crime and deviance- Types of Crime
Victimless Crimes

● Do not involve a
clearly defined victim.
● Involve illegal supply
and demand.
● Examples: drug
abuse, prostitution,
and illegal drinking.
Crime and deviance - Mauritius highlights
● increased by 3% from 44,498 in 2015 to 45,801 in 2016, mainly
due to a rise in theft (+8%).
● arrested and/or cautioned in the course of criminal investigations
in 2016, down by 1% from 21,648 in 2015
● The number of criminal cases lodged decreased by 6% from
122,860 in 2015 to 115,287 in 2016
● Out of the 3,672 adult convicts admitted to prison in 2016, 67%
were re offenders who had been imprisoned in the past,
regardless of any observation period.
● The number of offenders subjected to community service orders
increased by 15% from 487 in 2015 to 558 in 2016.
Crime and deviance.
Factors contributing to crime in mauritius
● Large underclass
● Urban areas in which the
poorest and welthiest live
in close proximity
● Racism and discrimination
● Failure of the educational
system
● Troubled family
● Alcohol & drug abuse
Components of criminal justice system
in maritius

Criminal justice system

Police Courts Corrections

 Components of criminal justice system
ALCATRAZ - in mauritius

©Regis Lefbure, 1995

Crime and deviance - Health hazards

● Long terms effects

● Most people do not suffer
any sort of long term effect
after being a victim of
crime
● However if some victim of
trauma is not addressed
the effects can escalate
Crime and deviance - Health hazards

● Major depression
● Thoughts of suicide & suicide attempts
● Use & abuse of alcohol & other drugs
● Ongoing problems with relationships
● Anxiety disorders
● A changing view of the world as a safe place
● Increased risk of further victimization
Crime and deviance - Health hazards
Strategies for Reducing Crime
Crime and deviance

1. Reduce social inequality and poverty.

2. Replace low - wage jobs with jobs that pay a living
wage.
3. Prevent child abuse and neglect.
4. Increase the social and economic stability of
communities.
5. Improve education in all communities.
Crime rate in mauritius -
come on, roll up your sleeves

● CONCLUSION
● Are we too famillian to crimes?