SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporate Crime, Embezzlement, Organized Crime

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Crime: the violaion of a society"s formally enacted criminal law. Social control: atempts by society to regulate people"s thought and behaviour very informal, like how parents scold children. Criminal jusice system: a formal response by police, courts, and prison oicials to alleged violaions of the law. Early studies showed relaionship of criminal behaviour with head shape (lombroso) and body size (sheldon), but they were faulty. Now studies show people"s overall geneic composiion in combinaion with social inluences account for variaion in criminality. Containment theory: individual factors like the ability to cope with frustraion and idenifying posiively with cultural norms and values are related to fewer problems with police. Criical review: the most serious crimes are commited by those whose psychological proiles are normal. Deviance varies according to cultural norms across canada and internaionally. People become deviant as others deine them that way. Both norms and the way people deine rule breaking involve social power.