SOCI 1F90 Lecture : crime lecture.ppt
18 Apr 2012
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The body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting towards the breaking of laws. (sutherland. Designates certain behaviours and actions that require social control and social intervention, codified in law. Actions that violate social norms, and that may or may not be against the law. Most crimes are understood as deviant however all deviant acts are not criminal. Any acts that involve the violation of social norms. Not that act itself, rather people"s reaction to the act that makes it deviant (labeling theory) A framework for understanding criminal behaviour that can then be tested. Provide us with an indication of how we can prevent or correct crime. Evil spirits, demons and magic thought to be responsible for criminal activities. Punishment was physical and aimed at the offender.
