CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Culpable Homicide, Sexual Assault, Indictable Offence
17 Mar 2016
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Analyze the amounts and types of crime in canada. Disinguish between myths and the reality of paterns of canadian crime. Recognize the usefulness of criminological theory in explaining crime. Apply various theories to diferent classiicaions of crime. Typologies of crime: classiicaions/categories of crime useful in idenifying paterns of criminal acivity and moivaions of criminal behaviour. 3 categories of crime in this chapter: violent crime, property crime, and crimes against the public order (ex. Violent crime: homicide, atempted murder, assault, sexual assault, robbery, abducion, other assaults and sexual ofences: homicide: when a person, directly or indirectly, by any means, cause death of a human being. Murder: intenional cause of death or bodily harm most likely leading to death: first degree: culpable homicide that is planned and deliberate, second degree: all murder that is not irst degree (*not planned) Infanicide: when female cause death of newborn child (under 1) if her mind is disturbed from efects of giving birth.
