CRIM 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Isolation, Abusive Power And Control, Unlawful Killing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 103
• Professor: Chantal Faucher

Document Summary

Homicide, assault ad intimate partner and family violence. Heuristics refer to cognitive short cuts that people use to make quick inferences about their world. When the news media continually show graphic and frighten accounts of violence people are likely to incorporate those vigvbid details into cognitive shorthand and have them available for future reference. Causing the death of another person without legal justification or excuse. Unlawful killing of another person by another with laice thought either expressed or implied. Kiling another person as a result of reckless negligence, shouldve known your actions would result in killing the person. Refers to a particular system of classifying personality, motivations, or another behavioural patterns. Promotes violence whenever they perceive provocations and threats no matter how minor. Homicides that occur in the process of committing a series of crime and are motivated by instrumental aggression. Victim may strive for to get violence over with. May be in rage or retaliation mode.