LS227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Conflict
30 Oct 2018
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Studying it systematically to create knowledge about crime. Making of laws, the breaking of laws, and reacting to the breaking of laws. Help us develop understandings that we could apply in society. To better understand crime, criminal behaviour, and society"s response to it. Crime that makes top stories usually involves blood. Over estimating the rate of victimization that they face. Tv coverage does not examine the social and structural reasons behind crime. What theories can we use to understand why it"s happening. Historically, harmful behaviour against others as treated as a private matter. If you murdered someone back in the day, the family of the victim comes over and solves it privately. Gradually, certain harmful acts became defined as criminal. These harmful acts are considered harms against society as a whole. As such, the state is responsible for enforcing and prosecuting those who commit these harmful acts. A crime is an act that violates criminal law and is punishable.
