SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Victimless Crime, Nonconformist, Social Control
8 Dec 2016
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People break rules all the time that are not labelled criminal. Not all rule breaking acts are considered equally bad. Nor do they receive the same degree of punishment. Different types of criminal behaviour and deviance can be distinguished by the degree of public agreement about the wrongfulness of the act. Three categories that distinguish such acts (consensus crimes, conflict crimes, social deviation) Types of criminal/ deviant behaviour (consensus crimes, conflict crimes, social deviation) Certain rules have a special status in society. Those rules are embedded in the criminal code. They"re there (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause there is a high degree of agree(cid:373)e(cid:374)t/(cid:272)o(cid:374)sensus that they are harmful acts to society. O(cid:373)e do(cid:374)"t thi(cid:374)k they should (cid:271)e a part of the (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al (cid:272)ode. The victims are usually willing participants in the act. Many behaviours are not a part of the criminal code but are still subject to some kind of recognition that they have violated something meaningful in society.
