SOCL 4461 Lecture : 4461 NOTES FROM CLASS
4461 10/30/2012 4:39:00 PM
1.attitudes and orientations
2.skills and techniques\
Crime is learned
• Some crime favorable messages have a greater effect than others.
Crime messages coming from primary groups are more important coming
from primary groups over impersonal means of communication.
Ex. watching mom cheat on taxes has greater effect than watching it on
television.
• Because of the relationships to them. They can punish you and they
can reward you.
• But also the kid can relate to a television show also because he may
happen to relate
Ron Akers.
• Criminologist in Florida
• Said that primary groups can reinforce negative and positive
behavior.
1937 The professional thief “ Sutherland”
• talks about Chic Conwell. Conwell Is an professional thief
4 characteristic to define professional thief.
• Skill
o Mechanical skill (unlocking doors and safes)
o Interpersonal skill
o Organizational skill (enormous amount of savvy. They are
very smart)
o Perceptional skill( can perceive opportunities
• Status
o They are the leaders of thief’s. People look up to them in jails.
• Consensuses
o Professional criminals share a philosophy of life.
▪ They all of dhonen
▪ Some targets are more worthy of being victimized by
others.
▪ Many legal officials are corrupt. They just get away with
it.
▪ Crime is a business. In it for profit.
o David mauer 1949
o Cannon=pick pocketer
o Class cannon=someone who was very good at it
o Tool Is the person who does the picking
o Stall=set mark up for tool, send mark back into the flow of
crowd.
o Fanning= very brief toucjing to see where the tools su
Patting=will actually hold the person still by bumping into him
o her. Then send back into crownd.
Shading the duke
Reefing a kick=tricky thing they do when suspect is wearing
baggy pants by tugging the seam of pants
Takes about 15-30 seconds to do.
• First thing
o Spot mark
o Stall come in close
o Fanning to find out where the stuff is
o Frame the mark, which guy which pocket
o First part of pratting= holding the person for a second
▪ Tool goes in the pocket
▪ Cover the tools hand shade the duke.
o Second part of pratting
▪ Send him back into the crowd
▪ Right after taking it they pass it to a stall.
• Grift sense
o An intuition that they have from experience. When to hit and
when to leave
o Argot= special language
▪ If you don’t know the language you aren’t in the group
▪ Helps to define the boundary
▪ Very useful when non ordinary processing are involved
Underworld
Loosely coupled system where people in authority have better relations with
themselves compared to others.
• Began in 16-17 century
• Jonathan wilde
o First great to steal things and make people buy them back
• Feudal wars
o
Theory of neutralization ”sykes ans matza”
• Embezzlement= person in position of financial trust who
misappropriates money or property entrusted to him or her.
White collar crime
• Committed by people in positions of financial trust
3 stages in becoming an embezzler. procession nature of crime
• incurring what is considered to be a non curring financial problem (
like a problem u cant see a professional to see) makes you seem
vulnerable
• perceiving that embezzlement is the solution to your problems
• normative conflict- doing things but not defining yourself as that.
10/23/2012
Homicide= the willingly killing of one human being by another
First degree murder= requires malice of fore-thought.
• The person intended to kill
• Pre-meditation
Second degree murder
• Malice of forethought
Non negligent manslaughter
• Malice of forethought and no premeditation
• Reduces criminal responsibility
• Apart of homicide stats
Negligent manslaughter
• No malice of forethought or no pre- meditation
• Is not part of homicide stats
70% of killing are a weapon
5% is a handgun
41% of killings know each other
13% don’t know each other and the rest is unknown
Homicide
• One of the most interracial crimes 90%
o Blacks kill black whites kill whites
o Male kill male female kill male.
