CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Roots, Jeremy Bentham, Cesare Beccaria
22 Jun 2016
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Social relations controlled by law and by the criminal justice system) system. : how we behave or conduct ourselves in our social relations. : the way that individuals and groups relate to each other (governed or. : shape our political system, our social system, our laws and our criminal justice. : norms or expectations - what people expect we will do. Formal social constraints (laws, the courts, the police, the prison system). constraining those who do not follow social convention. : (e. g. , the criminal justice system largely modern creations, designed to. Sociology involves a respect for logical clarity in the formulation of theories , and also involves discipline empirical investigation. Science = the use of logical, systematic methods to produce a body of knowledge. Theory = explains why things happen; help us make sense out of the facts through construction of abstract interpretations of empirical situations.
