CRM 102 Final: CRM 102 EXAM.docx
24 Apr 2014
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Depends on one"s particular interests and particular worldview" (white, 4) Depends on your culture, the norms in the society where you were born and raised. Crime is socially constructed and our responses to it vary according to our perceptions, our moral codes and our politics. Formal legal if it"s written as a criminal law and there are specific penalties, then it"s a crime. Social harm conception criminal & civil offences (e. g. , assault and negligence) both bring social harm and therefore deserve penalties. Cross-cultural universal norm argument crime does not vary across cultural norms. Labelling approach a crime only exists when society labels an activity as a crime. Human rights approach crime occurs whenever a human right has been violated, regardless of the legality of the action. Human diversity approach crime is seen as deviant behaviour resulting naturally from responses to unequal power relations.
