CRIM 2650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rational Agent, Criminal Type, Social Evolution
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Crim 2650 lamanita@yorku. ca office hours: thursdays from 10:45-12:00pm room 721 south ross mowiesel@yorku. ca. Miles wiesel office hours: tuesdays 12:00-2:00, wed 1:00-2:00. Criminology as social science modelled on physical sciences. Reduce phenomenon to variables and measure correlation between variables. Example: poverty vs crime reduce concepts into measurable variables. Education, social status(individual), household income, geographical location, employment. Individual event (where the law is broken [formal definition of crime]), motivation. Violent, sexual offenses follow a normative definition of crime (crimes that violate basic cultural norms or standards of behaviour in our society, resulting in punishment). Follow category of mala in se that are immoral. Formal definitions of crimes known as mala prohibita because they are prohibited by law, but due not trigger same moral responses. End goal is to find a general universal law that we can apply to a comparison poverty in canada is related in x way by looking at homicides .
