SOCI-225 Lecture 1: What is crime SOCI 225
20 Jun 2018
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What is crime?
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Objective Definition
A crime is an action that is statistically rare,
harmful, and provokes some sort of negative
social reaction
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Ex) murder, fraud, assault
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PROBLEM: there are crimes that do not meet these
criteria and things that are not crimes that fit this
criteria, there are still core characteristics that
make something a crime. There are no natural
features that make something a crime
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Socially defined
Changes in different places and over time
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“I think we should not view this as sociological
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What is crime?
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
9:05 AM
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Document Summary
A crime is an action that is statistically rare, harmful, and provokes some sort of negative social reaction. Problem: there are crimes that do not meet these criteria and things that are not crimes that fit this criteria, there are still core characteristics that make something a crime. There are no natural features that make something a crime. I think we should not view this as sociological. I think we should not view this as sociological phenomenon. We should view it as crime ~harper (this sentence is nonsense in this class. Same sex sexual activity- went from crime to not crime - nothing about that action changed, society did. Any act that violates the basic rights of humans. We all share a set of values and these are reflected in the law. We as a society share a set of values and the law reflects these values back to us.
