CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uniform Crime Reports, Snowball Sampling, Quebec Superior Court
6 Dec 2016
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Criminal behaviour is behaviour in violation of the criminal law: Behaviour is not a crime unless it is prohibited by the criminal law. Laws are usually defined conventionally as a body of specific rules regarding human conduct. Laws are enforced by punishment administered by the state. A composite definition (cid:862)cri(cid:373)e is a violation of societal rules of behaviour as interpreted by a legal criminal code created by people holding social and political power. Individuals who violate these laws are subject to sanctions by state authority, social stigma, and loss of status. (cid:863) Deviant behaviours are behaviours that violate the social norms. External and internal forces (e. g. , compte and lombroso) Europe in the middle ages (prior to 1700 a. d) The church and aristocracy held power, and they defined unwanted behaviours as deviant to their rule. Often labelled behaviours as witchcraft or demon possession. The use of torture and the death penalty was common.
