CRM 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Bryant Greenbaum

Document Summary

Laws are enforced by punishment administered by the state. Prostitution: societal views of deviants are always changing, ex. Sunbathing nude, women going topless: usually confused with crime- not all crimes are deviant and not all deviant crimes are illegal. Very bottom of pyramid: jaywalking, speeding, violating parking laws, public nudity, public drunkenness. Chapter 1 notes: punishment was harsh for common folk, the use of torture and the death penalty was common, used lots of hanging and public execution. If laws are made to order and benefit society with fair punishments, rational people will not disobey these laws (cid:862)let the pu(cid:374)ish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t fit the (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e. (cid:863) Things that keep us from committing crime other than punishment: ratio(cid:374)al people do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es. Chapter 1 notes: biological makeup and brain structure, positivism, behaviour is controlled by internal and external forces, science can be used to study human behaviour, influenced by charles darwin.