Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Control, Financial Crimes, Serial Killer
12 Dec 2017
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Law and social control: our laws are used as a tool or mechanism for social control, behaviours can be controlled in society through punitive social control measures. Specific: punishment is specifically for the offender, to deter that specific offender, deterrence is effective - to some extent, ex. One of the main reasons i would never want to commit a crime is because of fear of going to jail however, in some societies where people are raised around crime, deterrence isn"t as effective. Instrumental offences: people want to minimize their losses and maximize their gains, crimes that have lots of planning follow this, ex. Financial crimes, terrorism, robbery, identity theft, first degree murder, counterfeiting, serial killing, etc: higher deterrence effect, expressive offences, cri(cid:373)es that are i(cid:374) the (cid:373)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)t or e(cid:454)pressi(cid:448)e (cid:272)ri(cid:373)es usuall(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)a(cid:454)i(cid:373)ize gai(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d minimize losses. Self defense, provocation, bar fights, etc: high commitment offenders, professional, career criminals, highly skilled, committed to their crime, ex.
