Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homicide, Ethnography, Vigilante
17 Oct 2014
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What is a criminologist: criminologists seek to understand crime, criminals, and the criminal justice system based on multidisciplinary approaches, multidisciplinary approaches differentiate criminologists from other professionals interested in the study of crime: psychologists, sociologists, economists, psychiatrists, etc. take the best from all these disciplines and put it all together. Lecture 2: arguments for legalization, right to freedom should be able to do whatever you want as long as it doesn"t harm other people, criminal justice resources could be better used don"t catch all of the offenders, don"t have enough police offers so instead of getting prostitutes we should only go for more serious crimes like murder, rape etc, arbitrary nature of the law: many harmful and annoying behaviours are not o o criminal, drinking alcohol or eating fast food is also harmful, opportunity for legitimate business and government taxation, once you make a behaviour legal then the government can tax it, better protection for customers and service providers .
