FIELD OBSERVATION 2

FIELD OBSERVATION 2Choose your fieldwork site

(school, LRT, MRT, Fastfood, Restaurant, Malls, etc.).

Please observe the behavior of people and look for strange or deviant behavior.

Your observation should focus on deviant behavior (your perspective or understanding).

FIELD OBSERVATION 2Please make sure to use the

prescribed field observation report which can be found in our website.

Again, you are expected to accomplish a one page observation report. Form can be downloaded from our website.

Group Report should be submitted August 22.

Deviance and Social Control

Social Control█ Social control: Techniques and

strategies employed for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.

Social Control

█ Sanctions: penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm

Module 23

Conformity and Obedience

█ Conformity: Going along with peers who have no special right to direct behavior

█ Obedience: Compliance with higher authorities in an hierarchical structure

Informal and Formal Social Control

█ Informal social control: Used casually to enforce norms

█ Formal social control: Carried out by authorized agents

Insert Video (Formal and informal social control)

Law and Society

█ Some norms are so important to a society that they are formalized into laws

█ RA 9344- Juvenile█ RA 7610- Child Abuse █ Penal Code of the Philippines

What is Deviance?

█ Deviance: Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society

Functionalist Perspective of Punishment█ Durkheim’s Legacy

– Punishments established within a culture help define acceptable behavior and contribute to stability

Interactionist Perspective

█ Cultural Transmission Theory

– Cultural transmission: Humans learn how to behave in social situations, whether properly or improperly

Interactionist Perspective

█ Social Disorganization Theory: Increases in crime and deviance attributed to absence or breakdown of communal relationships and social institutions

Interactionist Perspective

█ Labeling Theory: Attempts to explain why some people are viewed as deviants while others are not; also known as societal-reaction approach

Conflict Theory

█ People with power protect their own interests and define deviance to suit their needs

Crime█ Crime: Violation of criminal law

for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties

█ Index crimes– Murder– Rape– Robbery– Assault

– Burglary– Theft – Motor vehicle theft– Arson

Types of Crime█ Sociologists classify crimes in

terms of how they are committed and how society views the offenses

– Victimless crimes– Professional crime– Organized crime– White-collar and technology-based crime– Transnational crime

Types of Crime█ Victimless crimes: Willing

exchange among adults of widely desired, but illegal, goods and services (e.g., smuggling, prostitution when consensual)

█ Professional crime: Many people make a career of illegal activities– Professional criminal: Person who

pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation(e.g. Hit Man, Robbery)

Types of Crime█ Organized crime: Group that

regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities (E.g., Mafia, Yakuza)

– Dominates world of illegal business just as large corporations dominate conventional businesses

– Serves as means of upward mobility for groups of people struggling to escape poverty

Types of Crime

█ White Collar and Technology-Based Crime

– White Collar crime: Illegal acts committed in the course of business activities

– Computer crime: Use of high technology to carry out embezzlement or electronic fraud

– Corporate crime: Any act by a corporation that is punishable by the government

Types of Crime

█ Transnational Crime

– Crime that occurs across multiplenational borders

International crime spans the globe

Table 25-1: Types of Transnational Crime

Modus Operandi in Manila

Sneaky Office Intruders

Scene of the crime: Thieves go to offices with no or little security measures, especially during breaks or when there is nobody in the office.

Plan of attack: They pretend as friends of employees, visitors, or messengers.

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ATM (Automated Teller Machine) Scams

Scene of the crime: They stay near ATM and they do different things just to earn money as quick as they can.

Plan of attack: They use different technologies to be able to access somebody else’s ATM account.

The Zesto Gang

Scene of the crime: They perform their operations inside a bus. They use distraction, confusion and intimidation to be able to get what they want from the passengers.

Plan of attack: They pretend to be conductors of the buses. However they also confuse the passengers by also pretending to be selling juice packs.

Airport Ambush

Scene of the crime: Thieves target arriving airport passengers. They will chase and stop you along the way.

Plan of attack: Their target is actually your car and they operate at dawn.

Test Drive Threat

Scene of the crime: They will pretend as car buyers and they will test drive the cars and steal them at gunpoint.

Plan of attack: Fake buyers will ask for a test drive. With you around, they will drive the car to secluded spaces and will ask you to go out by force and threat.

Backstage Burglars

Scene of the crime: They target shows and concerts. They usually stay backstage or inside the dressing rooms. Because people are busy, nobody will be able to notice criminal behavior backstage.

Plan of attack: Thieves pretend as aide or utility personnel. They take whatever they see or want and unnoticeably shun away from the area.

Salisi Gang

Scene of the crime: They thrive everywhere especially in crowded areas like malls, restaurants, fast food chains, bars, etc. They wait until their target gets distracted.

Plan of attack: They dress formally and they divert the attention of their victims until they get distracted and move for the kill.

Dugo-Dugo Gang

Scene of the crime: They usually target rich families.

Plan of attack: They target households and they intrude especially when the only one around is the house help.

Budol-Budol Gang

Scene of the crime: They use hypnosis and fake money.

Plan of attack: They use fake money to be able to gain the resources they want to have (e.g., changing fake money to real ones).

Philippine Laws

Criminal Law

Civil Law

Criminal-violation of the penal statutes (e.g., rape, theft, arson, murder, robbery, swindling, rebellion, illegal possession of firearms and drugs, etc.)

Civil- personal dealings which result into damages or failure to adhere to obligations and contracts. For example, non payment of rents, failure to deliver goods and services, etc.

LawsRevised Penal Code of the

Philippines

Civil Code of the Philippines

Family Code of the Philippines