CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - United States Constitution, Fecundity, Due Process

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Social relations: the way that individuals and groups relate to each other (governed or controlled by law and by the criminal justice system) Social forces: shape our political system, our social system, our laws and our criminal justice system. Social conduct: how we behave or conduct ourselves in our social relation. Social conventions: norms or expectations what people expect we will do; some are informal, some formal. Social constraints: can be formal or informal, informal constraints (rejection, shunning or exclusion); formal constraints (laws, the courts, the police, the prison system) Social institutions: (eg, criminal justice system) largely modern creations, designed to constrain those who do not follow social convention. Sociology involves a respect for logical clarity in the formulation of theories and also involves. Science: the use of logical, systematic methods to produce a body of knowledge. Theory: explains why things happen; help us make sense out of the facts, through construction of abstract interpretations of empirical situations.