CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shoplifting, Human Nature, Tabula Rasa
13 Oct 2015
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Social context than others): fbi produced uniform crime reports (some categories of people are more likely to be criminal, all police services collect records of any reports and place them in categories. If an offender is caught more than once, their file can be pulled up. Crime does not only depend on environmental factors, economic ones were: prohibition and the criminalization of drug use. important as well, opium was not illegal. An act that was not illegal suddenly became criminal. It is sometimes how the law changes that creates a new category of crime. This meant that criminality is not innate. Intellectual context: symbolic interactionism (george mead), humans learn behaviors through interactions. It depends on the individual"s interpretation of the action that produces a reaction. Past experiences have an influence on your interpretation: ecological and cultural transmissions theory (park and burgess, shaw and mckay), cultural and conflict theories (by sellin), he looked at society as being in a constant conflict.
