SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Victimless Crime, Crown Attorney, Deterrence Theory
9 Dec 2014
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Newspaper assignment: select four theoretical concepts and pick 4 articles that represent these concepts. Hagan"s pyramid: consensus crimes are the most deviant types of crimes: incest, rape, murder. Most visible predatory crimes if it"s wrong in most cultures and wrong across time. Conflict crimes: mala prohibita = wrong by prohibition. Things like sex before marriage (in the past), use of drugs, euthanasia. The enforcement of conflict crimes target a specific group of people. Age difference for alcohol use in quebec from ontario. Historical: our definition of behaviours are labelled differently over time. Boys getting into fights (young male not charged with assault). Females are charged, especially under age; they are not expected to fight and if they do they are psycho. Objectivist approach: we can study the individuals who commit crimes and try to explain how they are different from those who don"t. There is consensus of what is good and what is bad.
