SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Wayne Gacy, Home Invasion, Friends House

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Correlate is an association between one type of crime and another. Correlation doesn"t equal causation but means there is a relationship between two variables. Sociological (social class, gender, age) (who is more likely to be arrested, move through the funnel) doesn"t mean they commit more crimes but move through system better than others. Demographics shows you how the crime rate changes (baby boomers) Aboriginals) , economic inequality (poor moves you through the system and aboriginals are more likely to be poor), discrimination (targeting particular groups), demographic. The death of a human being, someone other than victim is the cause of death. Murder: first degree planned or deliberate, killing of police office, commissions of crime (killing someone is commission of another crime ex. Infanticide: by willful death of admission kills child under 12 months, less than 2, mothers only because its chemical imbalance due to giving birth.