SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexting, Robert Latimer, Incest
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Madison, young people"s outfits or music they listen to ie. low-riding as a status offense or long black overcoats as defiance: when talking about deviance and young people: signs and symbols given a deviant meaning or expression. There"s broad consensus that the acts in question are harmful. Harmful not just to the direct victims of the act or the friends and family of the victims but the community as a whole: these. The concept of conflict crime is perhaps misleading. People may think it refers to interpersonal aggression like fighting and hurting people but it isn"t. What it really means is the opposite of consensus crime where there"s virtual agreement in the community about the wrongfulness of the act. They are an important part of the criminal code. Narrow bound of activities that we can categorize as consensus crime: these are the kinds of crimes that traditionally attracted criminological interest and explanation. that it should be decriminalized.
