PSYC 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zero-Sum Game, National Crime Victimization Survey, Malice Aforethought
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Insanity: zero sum question, there are 2 options and you are one thing or the other, guilty or innocent. If you are proven to have psychological disorders, you don"t walk. 1: the doctors can determine whether or not you ever get out. No class next week (1/20/20: watch either bastards of the party or the prison in twelve landscapes, return 1/27/20 read valenzuela, et al. What is crime: a law is when there is an enforcing of a rule by the government, we expect that to be legitimate enforcement. If they don"t have legitimacy, people won"t call the cops. What is criminology: the systematic study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of law-breaking behavior, law making, law breaking, law enforcing. Different paradigms within criminology: rational choice theory, biological theories, psychological theories, social learning theories, control theory, structural theories, conflict or critical theories.
