SOC 2760 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Actus Reus, Prentice Hall, Mens Rea
6 Jul 2015
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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. She argues that the depictions of murder reveal a shift from values based in puritan o religion to secular ones. o serves as a warning to all. o from the rest of society. Puritan views - murderers were seen as sinners in a community of sinners whose fall. Found that suicide rates varied across locations and kinds of people.
