CRIM 1650 Lecture 2: Measurement of Crime
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Because there are so many crime tv shows people develop common sense criminology. This gives a very skewed representation of what. It focuses on types of crimes, at the exclusion at all other types of crimes. Binary opposites of common sense criminology: good vs evil, criminal vs cop, guilty vs innocent. If it is not technically illegal to do, the act is not criminal: virtually all forms of crime are deviance but not all types of deviance are criminal, moral judgements play a critical role in criminal law. Who has the power to decide what is right and wrong: not all crimes have direct victimization, the rise of the modern industrial society. It forces a lot of people to give up their traditional lifestyle. These roots were referred to as the dangerous classes. Those who have less power are not only more likely to be victimized, they are also more likely to be trapped in the web of law.