SOCI 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Suicide Of Amanda Todd, Ethnography, Richard Kuklinski
25 Mar 2016
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Bill c-51 (we need this to fight terrorism) > criminal justice approach (effectiveness of sanctions through punishments) > official crime data, measuring patterns and trends. > origins of law; how law is experienced in practice. > predicting and explaining individual behaviour (the overall cause) > nature and cause of specific crime patterns (violence, white collar crime) Edwin sutherland and donald cresset (principles of criminology, 1960) Criminology is the scientific approach of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the processes of making laws, of breaking laws, and of reacting toward the breaking of laws . The objective of criminology is: the development of a body of general and verified principles and of other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime and treatment . Stigma and silence against sex trade workers, violence against women working in the downtown east side. Out of site, out of mind life on the reservers.
