Sociology 2266A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: White-Collar Crime, Critical Criminology, Pharmaceutical Drug
26 Jul 2020
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Exploring the social world and the problem of crime. Scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour. A key problem: crime is a source of entertainment and most of what the public knows about crime and what criminology is comes from media studies. Criminological knowledge vs media representations of crime. Corporate crime (oxycontin the pharmaceutical drug that causes more deaths per year in the us than heroin) The csi effect on those who watch forensic investigation programmes. Effect on the jury voting not guilty" as not enough evidence has been shown e. g. fingerprinting which they had seen on these programmes. Adolescent limited offender offending behaviour starts at age 13, peaks in mid-teens ad starts to decrease in the late teens/ early 20s behaviour not driven by personality traits but more of a maturity gap. Adolescent limited behaviour actually sometimes driven by life course persistent offenders.
