SOC 1500 Lecture 1: SOC (Lecture 1)
5 Oct 2016
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Components: police -> court -> sentence -> prison (federal or provincial) Which prison you go to: provincial if your sentence is 729 days or below. Federal prison if your sentence is 2+ years. Medium types of deviance: breaking and entering. Consensus crimes: named consensus because there is a lot of consensus among us. We all agree that these crimes are wrong. Conflict crimes: some conflict whether they are wrong or not (ie. gambling, marijuana use, soliciting prostitution etc ) High enforcement targeting certain groups (race, class) Deviance is viewed as different (outside of the norm/not conforming) *you can be a criminal without being deviant (ie. speeding driving the speed limit is considered slow to most drivers nowadays) Administrative offence (when you are in the system already but are not following requirements (seeing a parole officer, community hours etc )) Indictable offence (those considered more serious (known as felonies in the.
