CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Juvenile Delinquency, Cultivation Theory
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Interdisciplinary discipline contains 2 or more academic fields of study: varied and competing perspectives to issues of crime and criminality, how individuals and as a society should deal w issues. Exploration of the interactions bw law, non-legal and legal institutions and social factors. Examines social factors that shape law and explores the impact (intended /uninteneded) of law on ppl + society. Focuses on why certain individuals / groups engage in criminal behaviours. E. g. form of mental illness studied in relation to crime and criminality. Explores development of policies around crime control and the formal institutions of criminal justice such as police, courts and corrections. Crime is defined under particular material circumstances and in relation to. Crime is not static and changes over time and place. Looking to see if there were specific ways that youth were portrayed and how the portrayal might impact the ways youth are perceived in canadian society.
