SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Cesare Beccaria, Albert Reiss
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Outline from last class: classical criminology- cesare beccaria . Who defined mayor west as a deviant individual in the pbs documentary a hidden life? . Lgbt community-group reactions (as he passed a bill to attack this community) Deviant doesn"t mean it is against the law. Recorded crime statistics the most common and orthodox form of collecting crime statistics. Important advantages include : seeing trends over a given period of time, can also look at geographical trends, changes over time. Can tell us how our norms of crime change over time (e. g. how spousal and child abuse did not come about until 1970"s and development of xray) The bigger the pinch you get the quicker you"re going to move up in the field. Additionally, crime statistics may not include some crimes that are not visible/not crime crimes the behaviour the police) reported (white collar crime/dark figures of crime) First its defined (have to think about how it was defined)
