SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Anomie, Atavism, Auguste Comte
6 Dec 2013
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Three types of crime explanation: external forces: nature, cosmology (weather) and demonology, group association. Act upon people, can"t say you did something with no explanation. (stole something because they felt like it- but usually there is an external explanation). Cosmology- external forces we can"t explain, such as humid days and storms. Demonology: witchcraft, demonises behaviour not normal to society (somebody who likes cats is considered a witch- all based on a person"s perspective). Internal causes: people who have mentally and psychological problems. Criminals have physiological differences (such as defective genes). Focuses on abnormalities and mental and physical in nature such as behavioural problems and i. q. deficiency. Group association: sociological explanations that look at crime can"t be reduced to individual causes. Looking at crime from group association model, through criminal explanation: the objective- subjective debate. Subjective: behaviour is constructed: classical school of criminology (1680-1800) The punishment has to be severe enough to.
