SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -Travis Hirschi, Dominant Ideology, Economic Mobility
Document Summary
Crime: affects health, safety, and sense of well-being, reduces people"s trust in social institutions, damages the central institutions of society (ex. family, workplaces, schools) Trend: men more likely than women to be involved in violent crimes, both as victims and offenders. Argued that some criminal behaviour is the result of rational calculation factoring in profitability and risk of crime. Argued that crime will result whenever groups have unequal amounts of power and influence. Laws: formal rules about what a society"s members can and cannot do; enforced by agencies. Social order: prevalence of generally harmonious relationships; exists only when people obey rules: must be manufactured and protected. Street crimes: simple assaults and property crimes. Changes in a society"s crime rate likely reflect changes in reporting and prosecution of crimes. Criminal statistics: statistics of conviction and or imprisonment: poor reflection of crime in society. Crime funnel: of many criminal incidents, few are reported; of the reported, few result in arrests and convictions.
