LS227 Study Guide - Final Guide: Inchoate Offense, White-Collar Crime, Hegemonic Masculinity
5 Dec 2016
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Exam review - terms criminology - the process of making laws, breaking laws, reacting to the breaking of laws. The development of a body of general and veri ed principles and of other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime and treatment norms - established rules of behaviour or standards of conduct. Women are viewed as naturally inferior and unequal to men liberal approach - distinguishes sex (biological) from gender (cultural) and sees the differences between men and women as resulting from gender roles and social patterns. Exp. associating masculine with physical strength and aggression. Strain theory - the proposition that people feel strain when they are exposed to cultural goals, that they are unable to reach, because they do not have access to legitimate means to do so. Anomie - describes an absence of clear societal values. Merton - people will adopt delinquent behaviours to achieve their goals.
