CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, Differential Association

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Professor Stephanie Piamonte

Document Summary

Regards crime as social phenomenon as opposed to biological or psychological. It regards how we make our laws (in canada as opposed to somewhere else), the breaking of laws and rxn towards breakage of laws. In order to prevent crime, if criminal behaviour is learned, we need to re-educate. Positive peer groups or example: a group that tries to do this is big brother and big sister. If we believe it is learned and we try to re-educate, how do we study crime: looking at family behaviour. If mother was put in prison, her son would learn; pay attention to her kids: peer groups. Spike in juvenile delinquency in certain area of city, start looking at schools or classes in that area and how can we ensure positive change: definitions: will be tested. Crime is that behaviour prohibited by the criminal code. Crime is that behaviour that violates social norms. Focused on the effects/undesirable effects of certain behaviours.