SOCI 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White-Collar Crime, George L. Kelling, Neoconservatism
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Root causes of crime are unimportant and misleading. Liberal social values: dad works, mom stays at home, kids in school etc. Soft penalties for crime, rehabilitation, and diversion programs all (cid:1) (cid:1) encourage continued criminal behavior (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) street crime is worse than white collar crime. Costs more money, generates more victims etc. Police goal: maintain community and social order: get squeegee kids off the street, find the graffiti artists. Increase foot patrols and private security personnel: get police out of their cars and into the community proven to be highly effective. For low level and first time offenders: community control practices. Giving broader search, seizure and detainment powers to police. 1987 manitoba: justice for victims of crime act. There are two main components to the study of victims: Victimization profiles: effective in reducing fear and the likelihood of being a victim.
