SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Victimless Crime, Sexual Ethics, Differential Association
2 Aug 2018
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Informal social control = gossiping: formal social control = being imprisoned. Innovation: most strongly linked to criminal behaviour, ritualism, retreatists, rebellion. Contemporary theoretical approaches include critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, and critical race theory: today"s media contribute to the phenomenon whereby fear of violent crime is greater than the chance of actually becoming a victim. Public order crimes are those considered by the state as immoral. Moral regulation through the law focuses on, for example, social assistance recipients and, in the past, sexuality laws. Moral regulation also affects the perception of crime victims. Things to know: understand the distinction between crime and deviance, describe the beliefs that underlie classical criminology, explain the biological and psychological approaches to understanding criminal behaviour, assess the relative effectiveness of proposed societal responses to crime. Role conflict or competing sub-cultures memberships : rules vary in the vigour with which they are enforced, e. g. out of 125 students, only 85% show up for each class.
