SOCI 2450 Lecture 9: Lecture 9_Nov 10

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2450
• Professor: Darryl Davies

Document Summary

Environmental criminology: examines the location of a specific crime and the context in which it occurred to understand and explain crime patterns. According to this perspective, a person decides to commit a particular crime after concluding that the benefits (the pleasure) outweigh the risks and the effort (the pain). The ops use the 7 point indicator adopted across canada which was developed and disseminated by the criminal intelligence service of canada (cisc) for use in classifying persons as gang members. 3 of the 7 indicators must be met in order to classify a person as a gang member. Most common reasons why men will fight: women, respect, drug trade. You do(cid:374)"t see a(cid:374)y ga(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers o(cid:448)er the age of (cid:1007)0 (cid:894)usually(cid:895), they are either dead, i(cid:374) jail, (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e addicts or homeless. Why is there much more violence then before (shootings) Crime guns come from the us and smuggled in through mission ontario, cornwall ontario, 40% legitimate guns and are stolen.