CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Dont

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Morality and crime: exploring crime on the margins , examining the links between morality and crime, criminalizing drug use: objective harm versus social construction. Crime on the margins : focus on the boundaries or margins between crime and deviance. Moves to behaviours that are more deviant than criminal. What is criminal and what is deviant: examination of two related process, amplification of deviance. The process through which a deviant aspect of a behaviour or activity are exaggerated or amplified with the result that this behaviour or a activity is redefined as a crime: normalization of deviance. Constructionist: status of behaviours or practices of social problems is a result of social constructions. Morality and crime: morality as a foundation for criminal law. Used to justify a whole variety of crime/ offences! Whose morality are we talking about: victimless crimes and the ambiguity of harm!