SOCI-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fidel Castro, Victimless Crime, Sharia

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Crime and deviance as a continuum: hagan proposed a definition of crime that encompasses both criminal law and a range of behaviours that should be crimes (ie white collar). 1)degree of consensus that an act is wrong most feel mass murder is wrong, while less agreement over marijuana. 2)the severity of societal reaction: ie possession of marijuana versus murder. 3(cid:895)degree of har(cid:373) of the a(cid:272)t is assessed: drug use, prostitutio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d other (cid:862)(cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373)less (cid:272)ri(cid:373)es(cid:863) that only harm the offender. Separation of deviance and crime: ie not providing a safe work environment would be disapproved of (cid:271)y so(cid:272)iety (cid:271)ut is(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essarily illegal. 4 categories (hagan): consensus crimes (high agreement), conflict crimes (low agreement), social deviation and social diversion (relatively harmless usually met with apathy) Crime is socially defined: ie murder is a crime, but not when one is at war. Defined by deviance: ie i(cid:374) holla(cid:374)d, do(cid:272)tor assisted sui(cid:272)ide is allo(cid:449)ed, here it is (cid:862)de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t(cid:863)

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