SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paul Bernardo, John Wayne Gacy, Serial Killer

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Offenders committed by the common person, can be anyone, typically those of lower class. Responsibility an individual level of responsibility, we can identify the perpetrators responsible, easily identifiable. Property crime any crime committed against property, theft, breaking and entering, motor vehicle theft. Violent crimes any crime committed against a person that can cause harm . More likely to be enforced: white collar crime. Offenders tend to be of upper or middle class. Occupation lends you the opportunity to commit white collar crime related to a prestigious position in a company, middle class management positions. Police, corrections and police rarely deal with the crime, it is more often dealt with internally. Traffic criminal code not normal traffic violations, impaired driving, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death. Assault level two use of a weapon, violent. The death of a human being that someone other than the victim is the cause of that death.