Crime and Deviance

Mostly, deviant groups are often labelled by the media in a negative manner. Many newspapers, TV stations such as News stations normally tend to take a biased approach towards labeling deviant groups. TV plays a big role when it comes labeling certain groups. Most of the time, the media focuses on a negative aspect of behaviors among deviant groups. one example is when it comes to young people especially teenage boys wearing hoods. They are normally considered as trouble makers or engaging in criminal activities.This will be the case of Trayvon Martin. He was shot and killed by a security man because he was considered a threat to the community because he was wearing a hood. Of course when it later became a big news, we heard that he physically assaulted the security man. As the investigation went on, it was made to light that, at the time Trayvon was killed he only had a bottle of Arizona and skittles. We also found out that he had called his girlfriend saying this man was following him. To be honest, I do not know what happened next in the case but am just making a point about assuming people in hoods are trouble makers because he was wearing a hood at that time.