CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - George H. W. Bush, List Of Association Football Teams To Have Won Four Or More Trophies In One Season, Recreational Drug Use

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: Gordon Anderson

Document Summary

Examining the links between morality and crime. Criminalizing drug use: objective harm versus social construction. Crime on the margins focus on the boundaries or margins between crime and deviance. Examination of two related processes: amplification of deviance. Process of which deviant aspect of a behaviour or activity are exaggerated or amplified with the result that this behaviour or activity is redefined as a crime. Reclassifying a deviance as a crime: normalization of deviance. Process of which the deviant aspect are minimized and downplayed where the result of the activity is not defined as a crime. Objectivist versus constructionist approaches to social problems: objectivist: The status as a behaviour of a social problem is based on objective characteristics as an objective harm. Objective harms - effects/harms that we can measure. We are able to see the certain characteristics and quantify them: constructionist.