SOCI 2P61 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neoliberalism, Hate Crime, Distracted Driving
13 Sep 2017
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Who are criminals: why study crime, levels of analysis of crime, approaches to studying crime, contemporary criminology. The body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes the processes of making laws, breaking law,s and reacting to the breaking of laws. Its objective is the development of a body of general ad veri ed principles and of other types of knowledfe regarding this process of law, crime and treatment (p. 9) Overall, crime is political, social constructed, changes over time. Crime is relative: physician - assisted dying, alcohol consumption: 19 in canada, 21 in us, age of culpability, ex) canada is 12 yrs, mental illness (ncrmd) Why should we study crime: understand society and compare with other societies, reduce and prevent crime - you must understand its character, reasons for it, causes for it. How do we understand the criminal act ex) stanly niece and his eggs kills wife, kids and neighbours because his eggs were over cooked.
