SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Impulsivity, Bobo Doll Experiment, Symbolic Interactionism
16 Jan 2017
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Objective legalistic approach: the study of rule breakers in society. Gottfredson and hirschi: theory suggests: crime is based on a social consensus: those who break the law do so because they lack self-control. *crime and crime control are considered to be objective phenomena. Examples: environmental law, licenses (driver, liquor), labor laws. Examples: landlord and tenant, contracts, will, parking tickets, etc. Threats to social order: crime against the person: sexual assault, homicide, property crime: breaking and entering, theft, offences that are wrong where there is no obvious victim: illegal drug use. Strongly informed by objective-legalistic approach (focus on people who break the law) Mens rea: evil mind (children under the age of 12 can never prove mens rea) Need to prove both to be found guilty. Applying those rules to label them as outsiders. Hard labeling theory: no act-even murder or rape is considered to be deviant.
