SOCI 2301 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Uniform Crime Reports, Central Nervous System, Anxiety
Document Summary
Regards social reaction, not inherent quality of action. Covers wide range of behaviors, from standing too close to murder. Written law is society"s formal definition of wrong. Violating these rights is a crime, whether its against the law. Criminal law protects the interest of elite society. Society enforces those laws that benefit the powerful, elite. Whether behavior is crime is negotiated between parties. Deviance often treated as criminal, especially if people don"t know what to do with it. Actions defined as illegal for some but not others. Illegal for children only criminal because of status. Motivated by an offender"s bias against race, religion, disability, etc. 4 types of data used by criminologists: qualitative data, collect data in form of words. Lean about new phenomenon, subculture, and participants perspectives: can be inexpensive, accessible for solo researcher, official data, data collected by cj officials. Best known ucr: fbi surveys law enforcement.
