Chapter 20.  The Mark of a Criminal Record, by Pager

Three Possible Hypotheses for the Different Outcomes between Black and White Applicants with Criminal Records:

1. Will a criminal record will affect a black applicant less than a white applicant?
-what are the underlying assumptions fueling this hypothesis?

2. Will a criminal record will affect a black applicant more than a white applicant?
-what are the underlying assumptions fueling this hypothesis?

3. Will a criminal record will affect black and white applicants equally?
-what are the underlying assumptions fueling this hypothesis?

The 4 Possible Effects of Race and Criminal Records:

1. White Non-Criminals

2. White Criminals

3. Black Non-Criminals

4. Black Criminals

Independent Concept:

What is recidivism and how does it play into the thinking revealed in this article?

How does a criminal record affect individuals' likelihood of being defined as deviant in the future?

Chapter 21: The Saints and the Roughnecks; Chambliss

Visibility

Demeanor

Bias
    Preconceived Bias
    Perceptual Bias

Reinforcement

How does class affect delinquent boys' ability to resist definitions of deviance?

Chapter 22: Doctors' Autonomy and Power; Liederbach

Three Sources of The “Protective Cloak”

1. Status

2. Altruism

3. Autonomy

How does status affect doctors' ability to resist definitions of deviance?

Selected Medical Offenses

1. Medical Kickbacks: 

    ~Fee-Splitting 

    ~Self-Referrals

2. Prescription Violations

3. Unnecessary Treatments

4. Sexual Misconduct

Medicaid Fraud and Abuse

1. Loopholes

2. Legitimacy for Fraud

3. Medicaid Mills

Chapter 5: Social Power: Conflict Theory of Crime; Quinney

6 Dimensions of the Conflict Theory of Crime:

 This the social power view of how definitions of deviance are constructed: what kind of view of society does it imply?

 1. the official definition of crime

2. formulating definitions of crime

3. applying definitions of crime

4. how behavior patterns develop in relation to definitions of crime

5. constructing an ideology of crime

6. constructing the social reality of crime

 [#1 a definition, #6 the composite; #s 2-5 the body of the theory]