01:202:204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corporate Crime, Victimology, Sexual Assault
7 Jul 2020
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Chapter 1: crime and the problem of social control. Social control - rules, habits, and customs a society uses to enforce conformity to its norms. Arrest - when law enforcement detains and holds a criminal suspect or suspects. Socialization - process by which individuals acquire a personal identity and learn the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to their society. Crime - action taken by a person or a group of people that violates the rules of society to the point that someone is harmed or society"s interests are harmed. Criminal justice - social institution that has the mission of controlling crime by detecting, detaining, adjudicating, and punishing and/or rehabilitating people who break the law. Sociological imagination - the idea the we must look beyond the obvious to evaluate how our social location influences how we perceived society. Street crime - small-scale person offenses such as single-victim homicide, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and vandalism.
