CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Substance Abuse, Lockstep
23 Feb 2014
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People over 65 are most likely to be victims of crime. Tend to be more secluded and away from society. Poor people are much more likely to commit crime than middle-class people. Official statistics say minorities and lower socio-economic individuals commit more crime. Perhaps racism is playing a larger role in the arrests and convictions of marginalized individuals despite middle and upper class people are engaging in the same activities. It is much easier to focus on street crimes rather than white-collar crimes. Violent crime is more prevalent than property crime. It is much easier to tell the story of a violent crime rather than. Violent crime inflicts the most harm on people in society. Corporate crime costs more money and ruins more crime. We use theory to make sense of certain events that take place in life. What was put forth to explain the crime. Attempt to describe, explain, predict and ultimately to control some class of events.
