The Social Nature of Crime and Deviance

Sumner, Colin

doi:10.1002/9780470998960.ch1

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“…This marks an acceptance over the fallibility of input data, and therefore predictions, based on longstanding critiques of official police data. Research participants were plainly aware that official police data was largely a reflective police activity rather than objective measure of crime prevalence, a process famously characterised by Sumner (2004) and the 'social construction of crime.' The implication of this process for predictive policing is the creation of partial renderings of crime as the affordances of algorithmic decision making.…”

Section: Predicting the Obviousmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘uberization of policing’? How police negotiate and operationalise predictive policing technology

Sandhu

Fussey

2020

Policing and Society

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Predictive policing generally refers to police work that utilises strategies, algorithmic technologies, and big data to generate near-future predictions about the people and places deemed likely to be involved in or experience crime. Claimed benefits of predictive policing centre on the technology's ability to enable pre-emptive police work by automating police decisions. The goal is that officers will rely on computer software and smartphone applications to instruct them about where and who to police just as Uber drivers rely on similar technologies to instruct them about where to pick up passengers. Unfortunately, little is known about the experiences of the in-field users of predictive technologies. This article helps fill this gap by addressing the under researched area of how police officers engage with predictive technologies. As such, data is presented that outlines the findings of a qualitative study with UK police organisations involved in designing and trialing predictive policing software. Research findings show that many police officers have a detailed awareness of the limitations of predictive technologies, specifically those brought about by errors and biases in input data. This awareness has led many officers to develop a sceptical attitude towards predictive technologies and, in a few cases, these officers have expressed a reluctance to use predictive technologies. Based on these findings, this paper argues that claims about predictive software's ability to neutralise the subjectivity of police work overlooks the ongoing struggles of the police officer to assert their agency and mediate the extent to which predictions will be trusted and utilised.

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Section: Predicting the Obviousmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘uberization of policing’? How police negotiate and operationalise predictive policing technology

Sandhu

Fussey

2020

Policing and Society

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“…All individuals who are part of a crime, such as the perpetrator and police, and their social, political, and economic needs and beliefs as factors in the emergence of crime. Social disorder emerges after events that have an impact on the social structure, such as economic crises, wars, terrorist attacks, globalization, and feminism (Sumner, 2004).…”

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Earthquake, social disorder, violence

Demir,

Ildırım,

Öztürkcan

2024

JOA

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Natural disasters appear as unexpected, traumatic events that break the normal flow of life; these events cause changes in the social structure in the region. There are two alternatives for this change. The first alternative is social unity, the other is social disorder. The purpose of the study is to explain the violent events that occurred after the earthquake in Kahramanmaraş on the 6th of February 2023, through the theory of social disorder. The literature on relevant subjects will be searched and the violent events displayed in the media will be explained in the context of social disorder theory in this study. The increased rates of violence and crime in the long-term period after disasters have been detected by the researchers and this situation has been explained with the theory of social disorder. The social disorder theory emphasizes that the increased stress burden causes an increase in domestic violence. The longitudinal studies that have been carried out on crime rates after the disaster determine that with the help of cooperation and social cooperation, there is a decrease in the crimes against property and violence and an increase in the cases of domestic violence. The disappearance of unaccompanied minors, child abuse, rapine, violence against women, and hate crimes against refugees are some of the criminal behaviors that are reflected in the media in the acute period and evaluated within the scope of this study. The Decrease of control due to social disorder and the absence of officials to provide security in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake explain that criminal behavior may occur in the acute period. The systematic, rapid, and effective implementation of the actions planned to prevent social disorder after natural disasters may be beneficial in preventing crime and violence in regions damaged by natural disasters.

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“…According to Colin Sumner (1990Sumner ( , 1994Sumner ( , 1997aSumner ( , 1997bSumner ( , 2004, all kinds of social deviance are not scientific and observational terms with definable and consistent behavioral referents. Thus, social deviance should not be treated as an objective behavioral category but as a form of social censure.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the censure of corruption becomes a "status-degrading ceremony" or "dramatization of the evil" (Lo, 1993a, p. 44, 114) because it causes the censured to lose their social status and social capital. It also impacts on their family and relatives as well as their social circle (Sumner, 2004). One of the consequences of the censure would be "the creation of resentment in their targets .…”

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Youths’ Views on Corruption Control in China

Jiang

2012

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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It has been asserted that criminal law and common morality are not sufficient terms to describe specific behaviors as corruption because those in power have the capacity to include or exclude certain behavior as a category in the law. Thus, corruption should not be just treated as an objective behavioral category but as a form of social censure. This article reports on a quantitative and qualitative study that collected the views of Chinese youth on the control of corruption in China. It was found that they agreed with the moral-negative judgements behind the censure of corruption, and that bureaucratic forces can be mobilised to punish the corrupt and degrade their status. Mediation analysis discovered that political functions mediate the association between the moral-negative nature and bureaucratic form of the censure of corruption and status degradation of the censured.

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The Social Nature of Crime and Deviance

Cited by 5 publications

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The ‘uberization of policing’? How police negotiate and operationalise predictive policing technology

The ‘uberization of policing’? How police negotiate and operationalise predictive policing technology

Earthquake, social disorder, violence

Youths’ Views on Corruption Control in China

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