SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Occupational Safety And Health, Endangerment, Homicide

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: C Yule

Document Summary

One-on-one harm (i. e. either physical injury, or loss of something valuable or both. This model of crime perpetuates in support of our current legal system. The rich get richer and the poor get prison jeffrey reiman. We have self-report studies that demonstrate that crime is evenly distributed but punishment is not. We go to arrest records, prison stats, etc. to see who our criminals are. But these stats reflect decisions based on police officers on who to arrest, judges, etc. Because they have intention to harm, even if only for a split second. No intention, but knew their actions might lead to harm. Heat of the moment (often think of this person as more blameworthy) These are a function of human decisions at all stages of the process. But the acts of these criminals are not the acts that endanger us the most. Offenders committing the worst offences do not show up in our cjs statistics.