CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Social Stigma, Political Crime

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Daniel Alati

Document Summary

Criminology: the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behaviour. Criminal behaviour (textbook): behaviour in violation of the criminal law: law: usually defined as a body of specific rules regarding human conduct. Criminal behaviour (composite): a violation of societal rules of behaviour as interpreted by a legal criminal code created by people holding social and political power. Individuals who violate these laws are subject to sanctions by state authority, social stigma, and loss of status. Deviant behaviour: behaviours that violate the social norms: not all deviations are/should be criminal (ie marijuana use, prostitution, etc, societal views about deviance are always changing. Deviance and social control hagan: varieties of deviance, pyramid based on agreement about the norm, evaluation of social harm, and. Severity of social response: top of pyramid: murder, sexual assault, terrorism, etc, bottom of pyramid: jay walking, etc.