CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edwin Sutherland, Fundamental Justice, Mens Rea

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****study the examples given in class will be on test**** Body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. Edwin sutherland originally de ned crim as the making & breaking of laws, and societies reaction to the breaking of laws. Interested in: empirical evidence & theory, etiology = causes of crime, construction of crime, punishment - responses to crime and deviance. Nineteenth-century social reform movements: expand to include: Norm: what is common or frequent: example: most people bike with helmets while biking. Normal: opposed to abnormal: example: some people don"t wear helmets on bikes. Normative: morally endorsed ideal: example: people should wear helmets when biking. *is a link on culearn in regards to these three concepts. Criminology (academic: theoretically informed and empirical study of the meaning of crime and its causes/ control. Criminal justice (administrative: more focused on the study of administrative responses of the study of crime.

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