CRIM 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affirmative Defense, Malum Prohibitum, Artificiality
18 Apr 2018
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The sociological perspective: stresses that people are social beings more than mere individuals so society shapes their behavior, attitudes, and life chances. Ca(cid:374)"t re(cid:373)o(cid:448)e (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e fro(cid:373) the society in which it functions. Socially conservative groups, mothers, political groups, older people. Attitude-graduating high school and going to college v. going home. Life chances- being born in poverty and no one in your family has gone to college. Influenced by cultures: mile durkheim: french sociologist, founder of sociology, stressed that social forces influence our behavior and attitudes, research on suicide: the act still has social roots, focused on social structure (he focused on religious groups). Crime and victimization are public issues: sociological imagination: the ability to understand structural and historical basis for personal troubles. The rise of sociological criminology: norms: standards of behavior, deviance: behavior that violates social norms, customs: norms that are unwritten and informal, social control: so(cid:272)iety"s restrai(cid:374)t of (cid:374)or(cid:373)-violating behavior.
