SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fundamental Justice, Observational Error, Assisted Suicide
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Criminology: the study of crime causation, crime prevention, and the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. Crime: behaviour or actions that require social control and social intervention codified in law. Deviance: actions or behaviours that violate social norms, and that may or may not be against the law. Social norms: shared and accepted standards and social expectations. Moral entrepreneur: a person who influences or changes the creation or enforcement of society"s moral codes. Biological determinism: the hypothesis that biological factors completely determine a person"s behaviour. Strain theory: the assertion that people experience strain when culturally defined goals cannot be met through socially approved means. Illegitimate opportunity theory: the assertion that individuals commit crime as a result of deviant learning environments. Criminogenic environment: an environment that, as a result of laws that privilege certain groups, produces crime or criminality. Differential association theory: criminal behaviour occurs when our association with definitions favourable to crime outweighs our definitions favourable to law-abiding behaviour.
