The Vicious Circle

In this article it gives a very interesting statistics on how much the drug rate in teenagers has increase. The race however between the teens that are committing the crimes are the same for white teens and color teens. However people in the society does not  understand that and when they hear about the crime they just assume that the criminal different race. I think this article deals more with the secondary deviance because these kids that are on drugs does not really learn the lesson that they suppose to. However in the article it mentions that the kid are getting more scared when the police treat them with taking away their driving license rather than jail. For me this makes no sense, how can a teen not care about their freedom rather they care about driving a car. In this argument the primary deviance is shown. Because teens are scared on loosing their license and more likely they not going to commit the crime again.

I think this article is very interesting because it shows to the people that not just color teens are criminals. White teens are involved in that too and even more than the color kids. Also for me it was very interesting that kids are more scared of loosing the ability to drive rather than jail. I would not want to loose my freedom. I think that prisons for teens needs to me more educational because they are so young still and they can still change it just takes effort. However no one wants to take that responsibility and no one really cares deeply about these teens that are committing the crimes.

All of the sudden i saw Sociology when...

All of the sudden i saw Sociology when this week we went to jail. I must say i learned a lot while i was there. There is soo many Sociological terms that i can applies to the day that we spent in jail! When we were in jail i saw a Phenomenological theory. When Sargent was telling us the statistics on how many inmates come back to jail after they are released. This theory explains why they do that because they have a positive view on themselves and they do not think they are doing anything wrong with it. So they commit the crime again and go back to jail! Also the shaming theory can explain why the criminals are put into the jail. They are put in there so they would see how ashamed the people are of them and the would make them change themselves and learn the lesson. However not so many Inmates take that out  of jail. Because they are have no goals and nor role models so they could change. 
In one of the court hearing i saw the only women that was in it. So i could applie the Feminist Theory to her because her crime was not as what the men would commit but it was close. She was charged with beating up her boyfriend who is in the wheel chair, however the boyfriend was beating her up too so they were both being deviant. This week and the field trip was very interesting to me because in my future i do want to become a lawyer so this was a good reality check for me. I really liked seeing the court hearings. It was very interesting to me because i did not know how did proceed. However jail part was not one of my favorite parts because it is just scary on how much some inmates do not care that they are in jail. 
Thank you for a great field trip Mrs. Haas:)