SOC 306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edwin Sutherland, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Informal Social Control
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10:48 pm: criminology, define, explain, predict crime, tudy (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)als" (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iors, causes, definition, societal reaction, criminal justice more practical policing and corrections vs casual, not crime investigation or law application, not criminalist who are detectives. Folkways, mores, laws: values of given culture. Least important: preferred customs but not serious, manners, dress, etiquette, mores, more serious. Laws does not prohibit acts that seem mala in se: racism, overcriminalization. Laws that are not responsibly enforced: ex: drug use, emergence of law, sacred to secular law, gemeinschaft. Simple communal societies where control is by family, kin, and community: use of mores and folkways, no need for laws due to lack of change and cohesiveness, gesellschaft, complex individualistic, division of labor, politics. Social control through laws: laws must be in accordance to mores, merto(cid:374)"s fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, best seen in prohibition (noble experiment, manifest functions. Intended consequences of change or existing social arrangement: ex: banning alcohol decreased alcoholism.
