CRM 1300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Victimless Crime, Uniform Crime Reports
11 Jul 2017
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The source of the behaviour is you; you negotiate the relations with friends and institutions: macro: society as a whole. It is no longer about you; behaviour is determined by external forces and compelled by structural forces: consensual vs. conflictual, consensual: society is good. You do(cid:374)"t like the way things are being handled but the framework is in place and can be fixed: conflictual: society is unfair. You disagree with how the laws are being handled and the system needs to be rebuilt from the beginning: denaturalization, all aspects of society are social inventions. Inventions should be maintained when they are useful. They should be changed when no longer useful: e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: old (cid:373)ethods of to(cid:396)tu(cid:396)e (cid:448)s. toda(cid:455)"s p(cid:396)iso(cid:374)s, shift from religious based to de(cid:373)o(cid:272)(cid:396)ati(cid:272) (cid:271)ased. Instances of conceptualization/denaturalization: criminology grew up in 18th century as consensual theorists, society was more optimistic. There was no need to yield to a priest.
