SOC227 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Actus Reus, White-Collar Crime, Inchoate Offense
11 Apr 2014
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This is illegal because the corporation was owned by shareholders, not by then men who ran the company: criminology the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It included the prcoceww3w of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting to the breaking of laws. Its objective is the development of a body of general and verified principles and of other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime, and treatment. Why should we study crime: social scientists believe that it is intrinsically worthwhile to learn more about all aspects of our social lives, including criminal behaviour and society"s response to this behaviour, ex. Us has a much higher rate of firearm crimes and harsher prison sentence, than. Canada: just as an understanding of a disease helps medical scientists develop cures, before we can reduce crime we need to understand it, ex.
