SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victimless Crime, Symbolic Interactionism
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When someone breaks a rule, others get the chance to condemn them: merton people turn to deviance in strain. Incarceration: rehabilitation working with inmates to secure a productive relationship with society. Included access to schooling and trades training: deterrence belief that people will be less likely to engage in crime if their freedom is in jeopardy, revenge constructed as retribution for the injury done to society. Incapacitation keeping those constructed as criminal away from society: rates, 14,800 youth (aged 14-17) and 38,200 adults are in custody in canada, higher than most of west european countries. Moral panic: crime rates are falling concern is increasing, media and politicians are sensationalizing the amount and degree of crimes. If it bleeds, it leads governance though fear: harm is caused by non-criminal acts", corporate crimes treated with less severity. Intention acting knowingly, recklessly, or negligently are all ways of acting intentionally .
