SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mens Rea, Actus Reus

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

Document Summary

Health, safety, sense of wellbeing: experiencing acts of crime can hinder everyday lives. School shooting could make ppl not want to go to school. Not wanting to live neighbourhoods known to have crime. Family, workplace, schools: ppl who experience bullying will avoid work/school, can rip families apart. Created out of responses to crime: laws sometimes named after ppl affected by crime, policies created in places with higher crime rates. Crime and laws specific road but will slow down when they know there are speed traps. Laws tools for promoting good behaviour (only if ppl know they will be enforced: ex. Speeding ppl will speed if they know there are no speed traps on a. Clotheslines can be charged for hanging clothes out to dry: if you live on a corner lot, you can"t build a snowman more than a meter high. Can"t travel across canada w/ alcohol (even w/ driving)