SOC 1500 Chapter Notes -Toronto Star, Squeegee Man, Public Participation
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Soc1500 reading summaries- key terms at end of each chapter! Week 1: 8th-10th january introducing sociological imagination, criminology, law and the criminal justice system. Public confidence in criminal justice in canada: a comparative and contextual analysis. 49(2), 153-184: crime can be identified by two different approaches: the objective-legalistic position or the social-reaction perspective, the objective-legalistic position. Value consensus or normative position, understands the defn. of a crime to be factual and precise something that is against the law . Crime is a violation of legal statues- criminality limited to its legal construction. Tappan (before the criminal code) argues that crime is an intentional act in violation of the criminal law that is subject to penalization . Laws- widely shared customs and beliefs that become codified into legal statues. Criminologists analyse the rule-breakers- since criminal is defined by law. Primary question: what are the causes of criminal behaviour .
