CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Victimology, Selfishness, Social Forces
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Cri205 lecture 6 psychology of crime continued, victimology continued, and social. Disorganization and strain theories of crime: barmaki 27. 01. 2017. Slides posted on blackboard with everything discussed. In this course, morality means knowing the difference between right and wrong. Should heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife: lawrence kohlberg prevented a number of people with this scenario, he was interested in finding the moral reasoning/justification different people provided for their actions. In his research, he found that people usually provide three kinds of reasoning for their actions. The stages of moral development (self > social > principles: pre-conventional morality, characteristic of children. I. e. should i steal the cookie: selfishness / self orientation and fear of punishment, conventional morality. Interests of other people to my family, my friends, my group, my peers: conformity, law & order, post-conventional morality.