SACR 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Upper Class, Victimless Crime

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: SACR 2600
• Professor: Mr.George Mason

Document Summary

Criminology textbook chapter one: crime and society september 15, 2016. Characteristics of people who commit crimes; trends in the occurrence of crime over time, and difference ctities, provinces, and countries in the rates and types of crime. In canada, we normally process law violators through a criminal justice system that includes the police, the courts, and the corrections system. Norms: established rules of behavior or standards of conduct. All groups have rules, society cannot function without them- if we are to live and to work with others, rules and necessary. Law exist when order can no longer be maintained through informal rules. The law also deals with behavior that is too serious to be left to informal mechanism. A crime is an act that violates the criminal law and is punishable with jail term, a fine, and or some other sanctions.