Deviance

I believe that punishable deviance is a societal construct. Deviance means that some one is going against the norms. They are contributing either positively or negatively. People that are showing deviant behavior may be randomly helping some one just for the act of kindness. The past week in class we watched "30 Days". This was about a man who spends 3o days in jail to see what it is like and how it feels. Our punishment system takes away the people that are out of the norm. People that are in jail go against the rules and against the norms of our society. People think that sending the men and women to jail with fix the problems that go on, but in reality it doesn't change anything. Because jails do not provide much of a support system for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, the people that end up in jail are most likely to go back. In our jail system, men are free to walk around, but the daily routines are different than they are use to, so once they get out of jail the possibility they go back is very high.