CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Robert Pickton, Union Carbide, Gender Role

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Steven Bittle

Document Summary

We label who will be criminal and who will be a vicim (robert pickton case). The proile of a criminal would not it the actual criminal. We respond to crime with diferent levels of violence someimes. Media always talks about real violent crime but not others crimes that are also important. Are laws are always looking for the person who did the crime not who could be responsible for a crime to happen. Powerful people do not always get the punishment they should be geing. Stewart stepped out of her gender role so she was punished more than any other person (insider (stock) fraud). Union carbide india (bhopal) leak killed 3-5 thousand (anderson): no safety but anderson was not held responsible for this disaster. Enron: made the company look very successful and sold of shares and helping themselves inancially. (pump and dumb scheme). Vp: environmental disaster, killed 11 workers, spilled a lot of oil into the gulf of mexico.