SOC 2700 Lecture : SOC 2700 Chapter Summaries.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Scott Brandon

Document Summary

Discuss the extent and distribution of criminal behaviours in society; the characteristics of criminal law and procedure; the characteristics of criminals; and the history, structure, and functioning of the criminal justice system. Theory: sensible way of understanding something, of relating it to the whole world of information, beliefs and attitude that make up the intellectual atmosphere of people at a particular time or place. View of life in which many criminal events are the result of otherworldly powers. Primitive people regarded natural disasters like hurricanes or floods as punishments for wrongs they had done. In history methods such as trial by ordeal were used to determine guilt they would put people through difficult and painful tests, and if innocent god would protect them and leave them unharmed. Objects and events in the material world as an explanation for crime. Early ideas were things like the braing is the organ of the mind .