SOC379H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Serial Killer, H. L. A. Hart, John Stuart Mill
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Impossible to change mores: when mores are adequate then laws are unnecessary. American problem: victimless crimes and crimes without victims such as abortion, homosexuality and drug addiction etc, overreach of the criminal law and crime problem, 1. Development of large scale organized criminal groups: 3. High prices which laws help to maintain: 4. Proscription of a particular form of behaviour: 5. The expenditure of police and criminal justice resources in attempts of enforcement: 6. Sampson: objectivist criminologist, still layers of analyses, 1. 2: young people who are engage in crime will grow up and to engage in deviance, 2. Media: they are very rare so becomes media event, media event symbiotic relationship, they make them into celebrities, before media, killing was done in the dark, example jack the ripper, 2. 3: this becomes important, social processes that emerge, people leaving certain areas produced anonymous classes, feeling anonymous in cities, 3.
