CRIM 300W Study Guide - Final Guide: White-Collar Crime, Gabriel Tarde, Circular Reasoning

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21 Sep 2017

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Simon Fraser University

Department

Criminology

Course

CRIM 300W

Professor

Sarah Yercich

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Deviance is location, time, person, & event specific: events and/or actions can be normal or deviant based on the circumstances of any situation and context. Deviance is more than just an act: social construction change based on enforcements, expectations, etc, e. g. , raise your hand in class, giving a seat to the elderly, assumed social norm of any given situation. Are actions or issues that directly or indirectly affect many members of society. Are based on assumptions about what is acceptable versus what is unacceptable. Involve socio-economic factors that may influence judgments about certain groups. E. g. , racial inequality in the cjs, war on drugs. Not only how the phenomenon happens but how law criminalizes it. 1: real-life situations, feelings, experiences, human behavior. Theories are tentative answers to commonly asked questions about events and behavior. Part of the broader context of social science research in an attempt to explain human behavior.

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based on your additional research, should police departments employ predictive policing to reduce crime with limited resources? Be sure to carefully defend your response with reasons and consider an objection (which you respond to) before you conclude the argument.

My response: I agree that being a part of the white society is like the concept of invisible privilege that has a familiar simile in that it is analogous to an invisible weightless knapsack. This metaphor emphasizes that white privilege, even though it may not be immediately obvious, has considerable advantages and opportunities that may include a lot of benefits and freedom to life. White people benefit from the structures and institutions in which they live. In the same culture, they were trained to be oblivious to their benefits. The undeserved advantages that were created by white people made people of color feel as if they were being oppressed. It is a norm and dominating racial power to be white in this society. For instance, if a white person comes into a new neighborhood, they are fairly certain that the bulk of their neighbors are the same color as them. A person has no idea of the advantages they have until they put themselves in the shoes of other people of color. Peggy McIntosh said that white advantages don't originate from a fault in a single human or from a single individual using them. It is via an inherent fault in the system that white privilege is created. If we wish to effect systemic change, it must occur inside the system. Systems have a major impact on individual behavior in the social world. We may all do our part to hasten the end. McIntosh maintains that white people may see racism in a different way when something gives them an advantage over others, not because it benefits white people. Systemic oppressions have interactive and internalized characteristics. Teaching racism as an act rather than an overall system that advantages the dominant group makes it difficult for white people to see themselves as racists. Embedded systems can't be eliminated, the recognition of them is important. Change won't come from just being dissatisfied with the system. McIntosh's example offers many benefits for comprehending white privilege. There are many advantages to understanding white privilege as the McIntosh example demonstrates. While it is true that 'whiteness' is simply about skin color, the various definitions of race reveal that it is really much more than that. The fact that McIntosh refers to white advantage rather than non-white disadvantage when framing the discussion of race reinforces the overall idea that race should be seen in terms of advantage rather than disadvantage.

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1. Introduction

-State thesis and summarize argument

-Define any key terms

2. Main Body

-Argument 1, Argument 2, Argument 3

3. Objection

-Response to objection

4. Conclusion

-Restate thesis/summarize your main arguments

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