CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Microsoft Powerpoint, Special Pleading
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They start off with assumptions about public policy. The policies in terms of attacking the root causes of crime, they have to be designed to eliminate the conditions in which crime can occur and victimization. These theories try not to address social problems such as social inequality, rather they look at responses that seek to prevent crime in the immediate sense from preventing offenders from offending. Why do most people obey the law: hirschi argues that the social bond that people have a state in obeying the law. 1) if we are put in a state of nature, others will share our interests in order to preserve peace. 2) most of us have proprietary state of obedience to the law to preserve our property, opportunities, etc. it"s harder for people with criminal records to get employment. There are certain rewards people get and by contributing to social activities by obeying the law according to social bonds.
