CRM-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indirect Costs, Digital Economy, Crime Prevention

• School: University of Tampa
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRM-101
• Professor: Cozzolino

Document Summary

The conflict perspective: conflict is a fundamental aspect of social life- can never be fully resolved, karl marx, two fundamental social classes in capitalist society. Key conflict thinkers: george vold, crime is a product of political conflict between groups, ralf dahrendorf, power and authority lead to conflict, which leads to change, austin turk, crime is the natural consequence of intergroup struggles. Murder: homicide, willful killing of one human being by another, murder, criminal homicide. Second degree- crime of passion, with malice, but no premeditation. Third degree- reckless/ negligent homicide (typical man slaughters-involuntary and voluntary) (speeding and on phone- hit someone on sidewalk- reckless) (fighting someone and last punch kills them- not meaning to kill them) Subculture of violence thesis: wolfgang and ferracuti"s subculture of violence thesis, primary perspective used to understand homicide victims/ offenders, the racial composition of an area alone does not have a significant effect on homicide rates. Victim offender relationship: parker and smith"s typology, primary homicides.