CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Structural Level, Populism, Young Offenders Act
12 Feb 2017
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Definitions, studies, and concerns of crime are constructed based on particular social, Two pillars of science - logical and empirical. Disagreements about the legality of marijuana, abortion, etc. What constitutes crime depends on different theoretical, methodological orientations. Crime is whatever the state identifies as a crime. Something that is written into the criminal law, and subject to state sanction in the form of a specific penalty. Crime involves both criminal (assault) and civil offences (negligence) and any action/inaction which brings about some type of harm is a crime. Some crimes don"t vary across cultural norms. Murder is murder regardless of the society: labelling approach. Crime only exists when there has been a social response to a particular activity that has labelled that act as a crime. Crime occurs whenever a human right has been violated, regardless of whether or not it is a crime under the law. E. g. racism, sexism, classism are crimes under this approach.
