CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informal Social Control, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Social Control
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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social. Causes, patterns, control of why people do certain crimes. Ex. downloading movies, why do students download movies, to save. Create valid and reliable measures of crime. Determining the nature and cause of specific crime patterns. Records, experiments, surveys, historical data, content analysis. Theory construction **(why do people commit crime greatest correlate of crime is poverty) **(crime specific to young people under aged drinking because there are so many laws and regulations it makes young teens to feel like drinking is badass) Looking at patterns of how people get victimized) Study involves describing, analyzing and explaining the agencies of justice. Norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members. They may be either prescriptive (cid:523)don"t(cid:524) or proscriptive (cid:523)do(cid:524) Go to class verses not going to class.