SOC 2760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Adolphe Quetelet, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Rob Shearer

Document Summary

Homicide notes week 1 : part one. Criminology and the sociological perspective: crime is one of important social problems and the least understood, media says little about social roots of crime, therefore it is hard to understand. Found that suicide rates differ from those of different locations. Those with high social integration/bonds had lower suicide rates. Horizontal social and physical characteristics of communities and. Vertical social inequality (social class, ethnicity, gender, race) They are rooted in social and physical characteristics of communities, they. Legal punishment needed to be severe enough to deter potential criminals. White collar crime: 1970"s: social bonding theory crime in relation to weak bonds to social institutions. Society was rooted in conflict with the haves and have nots in society. Labeling and conflict theories bias and discrimination: feminist understanding of gender and society gendered nature of crime and victimization. People obey laws not because they fear being punished but because they.