Class Notes for CRIM 1125 at Langara College (page 5)

Emotional and Behavioural Consequences  GSS reports that overwhelming majority of people in Canada (93%) feel safe from crime  Majority of Canadians (64%) feel their neighbourhood is safer than ot...

Dilemmas  If researches succeed in observing criminal behaviour, what do they do?  researches may end up being victims themselves if they hang out in high crime areas  What happens if they're...

Delinquency and Opportunity  An extension of strain theory and differential association theory  Legitimate and illegitimate opportunity structures operate side-by-side, but would-be delinquents could...

DAWSON COLLEGE o In Montreal, Sept 13, 2006 o Kimveer Gill (25 years old) o Wounded 19, killed one student (Anastasia DeSouzea) o Victims ranged in age from 17 to 47 most in their teens KIMVEER GILL o N...

Cultural Transmission Theories  Criminals learn criminal values in the same way that we all learn our values- - through interacting with other people in intimate groups  Also learn techniques for com...

Criminological Theory and the classical school  general (rather than individual) explanations of crime patterns  theories should also be falsifiable--we should be able to test or measure them ...

Criminal Event TheoryCrimes as social events involving offenders victims bystanders and witnesses the police and other participants in the criminal justice systemExamine the precursors transactions and aftermathsE

Crimes as social events  Crimes should be viewed as "social" events.  Involve people interacting with each other.  Referred to as events (or episodes) because they "have a beginning and an end....

CRIMES AGAINST THE HOUSEHOLD THE UCR vs. THE GSS o 2004 Uniform Crime Report suggests that property crime, motor vehicle theft, and break-ins have generally been on decline since the early 1900s o 2004 Gen...

Crime myths and realities o Myth:  Most criminals are dangerous and clever  Most are pathological individuals who kill at random  Police in...

Cesare Lombroso  Founder and most prominent member of Positive School  Interest in science, medicine and evolutionary theory led Ceasare Lombroso in search of atavistic criminal – a degenerate throwback on earli...

Consensus versus Conflict Consensus  Society as a functional organism  Norms/expectations based on shared values/interests  Those who are different (e.g., criminals) are deemed to be abnormal Con...

Cesare and Jeremy Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794)  torture was unfair--confession might have nothing to do with innocence or guilt  if you were innocent, you were tortured anyway; if you guilty, ...

Behaviours Avoidance Behaviours  Steps people take to distance themselves from situations they perceive to be dangerous  Moving to new neighbourhood or staying away from downtown core, e...

Adoption Studies  Study identical (MZ) twins raised by different sets of parents, in different environments  Control for social class, child-rearing practices, and diet Muddy Waters  Most adoption studies...