CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jeremy Bentham, General Social Survey
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Victim roles in crime: direct role provoke the criminal, indirect role example working in area where crime is happy, cost of crime. People sustain injuries (take medical leave), property, money. Tax dollars that sustains the hospitals, police officers, and emergency units. Remember the concept of dark figure applies to victimization. Some investigation is invasive the case for rape, sexual assault. How media focuses on more violent crimes and more extreme cases leaving society to live in fear to some extent media waves filter news and consistently reports on a certain type of crime. How do scholars get information on victimization: canadian urban victimization survey, general social survey, international crime victims survey. Explains people commit crimes knowingly therefore they can be held accountable. As opposed to the dark ages where people assumed you were possessed therefore committed the crime. Cesare beccaria: wrote on crimes and punishments, current retribution based on the classical theory. According to beccaria: based on human nature.
