CCJ 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kai T. Erikson
14 Feb 2018
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Recap: criminology: interdisciplinary social science, laws: social constructions, crime: largely a social phenomenon. Social facts: external to the individual , invested with a coercive power , exercise control , there are ways of thinking, feeling, acting, patterns of behavior patterns of thought, patterns of actions, that society expects from us. Social facts: professional practices, laws, morals, fashion. Deviance & the public scaffold : kai erikson (1962, deviance is an important condition for preserving stability , need to have a constant balance between rule followers & rule breakers. Reiman (1984: the american criminal justice system is a mirror that shows a distorted image of the dangers that threaten us and image created more by the shape of the mirror than by the reality reflected. Preventable deaths: speaking of danger, college students are at higher risk for sexual assault, college-age women are four times more likely to be assaulted than women of any other age group.
