SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Corporate Crime, Class Conflict, Counterculture Of The 1960S
20 Jun 2018
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CHAPTER 11 CRIME, LAW, AND REGULATION
objectives
->what is crime?; what is deviance?
->learn key concepts, ideas, theories
->understand historical/cultural contexts
->review role of criminal justice system
->use critical thinking skills
criminology
the study of crime causation, crime prevention and the punishment and rehabilita
of offenders.
Crime
Behaviours or actions that require social control and social intervention, codified
law
deviance
Chapter 11
Monday, March 6, 2017
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bilitation
ified in
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deviance
Behaviours that violate social norms and may or may not be against the law
Laughing at a funeral (deviant/not illegal)
Theft (deviant AND illegal)
deviance & crime
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socially constructed.
Varies according to society
Contested within any given society
changes historically
Deviance is relative -- an act becomes deviant only when socially defined as such
role of
moral entrepreneurs
person who influences the creation or enforcement of a society's moral codes
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Document Summary
>use critical thinking skills criminology the study of crime causation, crime prevention and the punishment and rehabilita of offenders. Behaviours or actions that require social control and social intervention, codified law deviance bilitation ified in deviance. Behaviours that violate social norms and may or may not be against the law. Theft (deviant and illegal) deviance & crime -> socially constructed. >people choose actions that have maximum benefit/create pleasure as applied to criminology: people have free will -> choose to commit crimes/ be lawful. Ceasare lombroso (1835-1909): criminals as atavists evolutionary throw-back. A way to identify these individuals were that they displayed ancestral or primitiv characteristics (lead to criminal behaviour) ul acts riate to criminal. 2 biological determinism: hypothesis that biological factors determine a person"s behaviour. Idea that criminality could be inherited -physical traits "proved" criminality. Legitimate means (education/job/hard work: normative social order creates unequal access to legitimate means, gap or strain between institutionalize goals and legitimate means.
