SOCI 1F90 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 crime and deviance.docx
23 Apr 2012
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The body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting towards the breaking of laws. (sutherland & cressey, Multi-disciplinary field that focuses on the explanation of crime that takes societal factors into account such as poverty or discrimination. Information on the causes of crime, the patterns and trends of crime. Areas of interest development of criminal law and its use to define crime, the causes of breaking the law and the methods implemented to control those that break the law. Clock-work orange if the state can deprive the individual of his freewill making him a clockwork orange, what does this say about our behavior modification techniques. Designates certain behaviours and actions that require social control and social intervention, codified in law. Actions that violate social norms, and that may or may not be against the law. Different from a norm or accepted standards of society.
