SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Racial Profiling, Sexual Assault, Anomie
8 Dec 2015
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Soc 100 lecture 35 deviance & social control. Types of crime: victimless crimes: crimes that tend to involve consenting adults participating. You are embarking in these activities on your own will, generally. Willing exchange among adults of widely desired, but illegal goods and. Crime statistics services: not as accurate as social scientists would like to believe. There is a filter when it comes to crime statistics. Additionally, the police have to think of it as a crime for it to be classified. Thus, certain criminal activity goes unreported: the dark figure of crime: the criminal activity that is not reported. Having a large dark figure means this criminal activity is underreported. Having a small dark figure means these crimes are reported most often. Crimes that entail domestic abuse may have a large dark figure: since there is reluctance to report domestic violence to the police.
