CRM 3314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nora Volkow, Neoliberalism, Retro Report

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3314
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

Social sanctions can be informal things (family/group prohibitions, religious rules, peer groups type of ideas of drug use, etc. ), social sanctions can also be vague, cultural rules - it sort of identifies problematic use in inappropriate ways, for example: only drink after five. Social sanctions are associated with rituals (based upon the behaviour that we witness). It allows us to access a certain type of agency but when we look at spencer & foster"s article, peer groups do this - you affiliate yourself with certain drug users and avoid others. People who would smoke crack would get high much quicker. It could lead people to engage in episodic bingeing - using multiple times over the course of an hour. ), then you"re going to demonstrate that you"re someone worthy of respect, who can take care of themselves: they also say that crack is crime-making (criminogenic) because it leads to crime.