Informal Sanctions and Deviant Behavior in Legal Justice System

Running Head: INFORMAL SANCTIONS
INFORMAL SANCTIONS
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A deviant behavior refers to the behavior of any person, which does not comply with the
social norm, or values of the community. The deviance in behavior may occur in any situation
including formal, informal, voluntary and involuntary behavior. This essay aims to elaborate on
the deviance of behavior and its impact in the legal justice system. The essay also aims to
highlight the informal sanctions that play a major role in the deviation of a person’s behavior.
Psychopaths and sociopaths are the two types of deviants found in the society. According
to Dexter Morgan, the dangerous people residing in the society often give the impression of an
impressive fictitious character. Both the concepts refer to mental disorders that include anti-
social character, lack of empathy, and failure of inhibitions. However, in further analysis, it can
be understood that psychosis is a further situation where the person involves himself in the
deliberate isolation from the society resulting in anti-social behavior and lack of empathy
towards others leading to mental disorder. The people with deviant behaviors often represent as
normal people with manipulative and cruel intentions unknown to others behind their faces of
innocence. In broad terms it can be said that psychopaths are people involving internal mental
disorders and have no relation to their mental instability with the outside world whereas in case
of sociopaths, it can be understood that these people are affected by the society and their mental
instability is the outcome of the social behavior of other people leading to the deviance in the
behavior of such people. According to Hare, 1999, the sociopaths are the people have are
inability to blend in with the rules of the society or abide the societal rules. He further explains
that sociopath may be a sociological disease par excellence. However, while some people seem
pulled away from the crowd, others seem attractive, charming and confident.
As opined by Cesare Lombroso, born criminals can be distinguished from specific
characteristics of physiological degeneracy called isolation. Rimke 2011 confirmed the same. As