SOCL 4461 Chapter : Chapter 1 Section 1
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Just social rules: crime- violating a law, some rules are formally specified by the state and will get you formally punished. Edwin southerland gives a 3 part definition: the study of law-making, the study of law-breaking, the social reaction to law-breaking. Law-breaking: documentation of crime; explaining the trends (gender/ race trends: this course is about documenting crime and figuring out why these things/ trends occur based on theories. Social reaction to law-breaking: criminal justice system (police, courts, etc. ) You can never truly prove a theory, so you can falsify a theory instead: this is done to knock out weak theories. Intelligent design life is too complex to explain. It"s not falsifiable; requires a little bit of belief which is why they call it faith: hypothesis-educated guess based on part of or a theory. Get the ones that go to school; drug use is probably higher among dropouts (sample bias: sample bias-directly affects results.
