SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Culpable Homicide, Dangerous Offender, Homicide

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

African american drivers are more likely to be stopped by police than caucasian drivers goffman would argue that this is the result of physical stigma (false) - group identity. Objectivist (consensus) - we can study criminals because we can observe them; different than non-criminals - behaviour is an attribute of that individual, inherent in that individual. Subjectivist (conflict) - crime as a label - w/o label, no crime - emphasizes social construction of norms (and crime) Categories of crime - *****differences of street crime vs wcc (exam)***: street crime (conventional) Offenders - committed by the common person - anyone can potentially commit this type of crime - usually the lower classes are convicted/arrested of street crime, more likely to move down the funnel. Responsibility - individual level responsibility - individuals who are perpetrators, and individuals who are victims - easy identification. 2 categories (violence and property) - violence - committed against a person - property.