SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Bad Hindelang, Environmental Design, Physical Geography

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

Document Summary

During the 1800s, the naturalistic approach of classical criminology became the basis for virtually all criminal justice systems in the world. Tittle the certainty of imprisonment deters crime, but severity only deters crime when certainty is high: chiricos & waldo results on certainty could be explained by variations in police record-keeping. If police handle cases information without making an official record, then that jurisdiction has lower official crime rates and greater certainty of imprisonment (because the more serious offenses are recorded and those more likely to result in imprisonment) If police meticulously make official records then that jurisdiction will have higher official crime rates but less certainty (because many of the criminal events won"t result in imprisonment) Shorter prison sentences and higher murder rates (in death penalty states) Longer prison sentences and lower murder rates (in non-death penalty states: argued it is unlikely that longer prison sentences deter homicide while the death penalty does not deter it.