SOC205H5 Lecture 11: SOC205 Lecture 11
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Choosing to be criminal: crime pays: morgan reynolds: according to reynolds, the reason we have so much crime is that the benefits outweigh the costs, need to expand imprisonment, helped legitimate get tough policies, reynolds denied most sociological factors as root causes to crime, examples of texas: when crime does not pay, criminals commit fewer crimes because punishment deters crime. Disorderly people are allowed to take over public spaces; these are not necessarily predatory criminals but rather disreputable or obstreperous or unpredictable people; panhandlers, drunks, addicts, rowdy teenagers, prostitutes, loiterers, and the mentally disturbed: wilson and kelling believed disorder caused by disreputable people (cid:224) breakdown in informal control (cid:224) invasion of predatory criminals (cid:224) high crimes rates in the neighbourhood, to attack this initial factor public disorganization must no be tolerated to continue this cycle, they believed that formal control (police arresting these disorderly people) would allow informal control flourish again.
