Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Offender Profiling, Symbolic Interactionism, Male Unemployment
22 Oct 2016
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Norms and laws change drastically depending on what is seen as normal during that time and place. For example, internet file sharing is technically illegal by definition, but very controversial in nature, another example would be laws against gay marriage in some countries: consensus crimes are widely recognized to be bad in themselves. Little controversy over their seriousness, and the vast majority agrees that there should be severe punishment. An example would be setting fire to property that is not your own. Measuring crime (not important: crime statistics collected by the police is the main source of crime statistics. Explanations for declining crime rates: four reasons and theories exist for the decline in canadian crime rates. The (cid:862)(cid:449)ar agai(cid:374)st (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e(cid:863) is i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)gl(cid:455) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g fought (cid:271)(cid:455) a su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)tiall(cid:455) e(cid:374)larged corps of better trained and more equipped law enforcement and correctional officers (mohr and spencer, 1999: 588).
