Jail Time

Jail was intriguing, i thought it was nice of the few jailmates that said hi or si mply waved to us. Listening to the Sargent speak before we went on the tour i couldn't help but feel shocked. He said that they were peple too, i thought that it was obvious, and that the men i the cells, although they were convicted of crimes they committed, they were people. All of the people that have gone through there with sneers on their fces or scared looks make me upset in the sense that all of us have comitted some crime at one point or another. What separates a crime from an act of deviance? What if you just thoght that you were doing something small but the repercussions from it caused a crime later on down the line? I believe it shoudln't have to be said that the men i those cells are people.

Deviance

Everyone sees deviance all the time, you may not know its sociology though because it happens so often. At Target the other day there was a woman who was walking around with her chiold on a leash. This is deviance because it's not everyday, nor every mother, that has a child on a leash. i think it's dehumanizing, it's almost like ttreating your child like a pet. Mothers for centuries before us had been able to raise their children without them, and i know that there is so much more for the children to go lok at now a days but it's not neccessary. The mother was nearly dragging her son who was crying, of course, wouldn't you cry if you were wearing Sparky's leash? yeah, that's the biggest deviance I saw this week.