[SOC 1500] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (53 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Has real effects: health, safety, sense of well-being. Victimization has real effects (whether experienced, taught, or seen in the. Damages central institutions media: ie schools, homes, workplaces, need to find solutions, even the institution of families can be torn apart through death, crimes resulting in trust issues, etc Policies: created out of responses to crime. Crackdowns by police in particular neighbourhoods because of violence, rise in rates of crime. Every society has rules about behaviour (informal rules exist in peer groups, social: formalized rules = law. New laws are communicated through multiple forms (media, worth of mouth, personal experience ) Laws are also shifting/changing based on priorities: ie clotheslines (still a law but not necessarily enforced as priority has seemed to shift from maintain an aesthetically pleasing area to environmental concerns) An act or omission that is prohibited by criminal law . Two components: actus reaus: act of doing something, mens rea: guilty intent.