Examining the Impact of Technology in the Formation of Deviance and Social Control
Sebahattin Ziyanak

Abstract
Many researchers have explored how the development of technology has affected the nature of deviance and the nature of social control in last two decades (Holt, 2009; Quinn and Forsyth, 2005;Brayant, 1984). For example, technology has been adapted by many criminals to rapidly exchange all sorts of information, and is thus a scientific and technological innovation that can foster criminality and create a new subculture of deviance. In other instances, it is reported that pagers and cellular phones are used by prostitutes and drug dealers to communicate quickly with their clients (Lucas, 2005). Car thieves too have been adapting these new devices to increase their success rates, and hate groups continuously use technology to communicate hate messages online across great distances. This paper will address how the development of technology has affected the nature of deviance and social control in the 20th and 21st century. In this regard, I will identify and discuss three technological issues, including the development of the Internet, the effect of electronic surveillance, and the development of mass media, all of which may have impacted rates of deviance or control in some way.

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