SOC 1500 Chapter Notes -White-Collar Crime, Relative Deprivation, Social Disorganization Theory
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Concepts of crime, law, and criminology1/31/2012 6:36:00 pm. People find out about crimes from media coverage. Criminal justice system: stages which offender passes through beginning with the investigation/ arrest followed by the release of offender and re-entry to society (page 4). Intimate violence: violence occurring in the family such as child abuse. Aggressive behaviour is very often learned in homes where parents are aggressive role models and victimize their children learned violence. In assessing the likelihood of being victimized, people are influenced by media coverage rather than personal experience. Third-hand knowledge of crime has negative impacts: people believe they are more at risk of being victimized, they trust less in the policing system, and they favour harsher punishments for offenders. Violent behaviours are also linked to observational learning, traumatic experiences in childhood, and psychopathic personality structures. Criminology: the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behaviour.
