SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Victimless Crime, Edwin Sutherland, Travis Hirschi
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Labelling theory: argued that victimless crimes should be discriminated. Consensual acts by adults that break the rules prescribed in law. Argued that making these victimless acts illegal served no purpose apart from making. Suggested that inhibiting such victimless behaviour leads to secondary deviance complain to the police or present evidence against those rule-breakers criminals of otherwise law-abiding citizens. Moral panic trivial in nature or frequency that they threaten the social order a threat to societal values and interests. Social concern about and overreaction to certain deviant behaviours that may be fairly. Cohen: a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as. Moral panics typically start with a growing perception that the behaviour of the. An increasingly hostility develops towards the group in question and clearer group is likely to have a negative impact on society divisions form between them and us .
