SOC 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Class Conflict, Corporate Crime, Counterculture

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Criminology scientific approach of crime causation, crime prevention, punishment of offenders. Process of making laws, breaking laws, reacting towards breaking of laws. Sociology of law looks at how law and justice system are socially constructed. Rule of law no person is above law, and that state power should not be exercised arbitrarily. Crime behaviours and actions requiring social control and social intervention, codified in law. Condition (mental health condition something about an individual"s physical being) That violates social norms in the society which it occurs. Definitions of deviance change over social space. Must consider norm violations/reactions by others (conforming or deviant) Process used to describe how to determine behaviours, attitudes, conditions come to social. Have power (community leaders, politicians, religious leader) Platform they have (spiritual group, politician group of followers) Politicians were concerned calling young people aggressive threats to drivers. Removed focus from youth homelessness created as threat to urban habitability.