SOC 1500 Study Guide - Final Guide: White-Collar Crime, Corporate Crime, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Alexander Shvarts

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Lecture 5: drug crime: talk about the role of moral entrepreneurs in influencing us drug policies. Compare how drug policies were formed in the us, uk, and canada. The role of moral entrepreneurs is to determine which behaviors are criminalized. The most powerful use law to stigmatize the less powerful. Moral entrepreneurs define conditions as offensive and harmful, enforcing rules and providing enforcers. Moral entrepreneurs are groups that find certain behaviors offensive and encourage society to make that behavior illegal. An example of a moral entrepreneur is madd. They are a group that find drinking and driving offensive and encouraged politicians and legislators to make laws against it and make punishments more severe. The least influential members of society are most often caught and labeled deviant. When looking at the formation of drug policies, the policies differ in the us, uk, and.