SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Victims Family, Contract Killing, Prentice Hall

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Rob Shearer

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This document includes the following notes: unit 01 on courselink. All required unit readings: barkan, steven f. 2014. Upper saddle river, nj: pearson prentice hall: soulliere, danielle m. (2003). Prime-time murder: presentations of murder on popular television justice programs. Journal of criminal justice & popular culture 10(1): 12-38. (r: malone, lesley. In the aftermath: listening to people bereaved by homicide. What is sociological criminology: some social groups are disproportionately affected by homicide compared to other social groups, important to understand why they are at an increased risk. Such incidents seem to reflect both puritan and secular views. Reading 1. 1 - criminology and the sociological perspective by barkan. The mutual relevance of sociology and criminology: crime and victimization are public issues rather than private troubles. In this case social control is more formal and takes the form of specialized groups of people (example: police officers): for much of recorded history people attributed crime and deviance to religious forces.