CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, Fire Extinguisher
6 Apr 2018
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F: violent crimes inflicts the most harm on people in society f. Just because something is illegal on the books, doesn"t mean the: what we consider to be deviant changes over time person convicted is bad, level of suveillence changes, but middle and high class are doing. If a baby is crying, speculate what it needs: breakup discussion with friends, discussing theories. What factors contribute to crime: raised in a crime ridden environment, reward over risks, cycle of violence, form of resistance due to abusive upbringing, peer pressure, underlying mental illness, accessibility of weapons lack of education. Individual not in control in making control of making decision. 2 systems of reasoning: deductive: start off with a theory or explanation, test it and verify or refute it. Inductive: observe some sort of phenomena, analyze and interpret data, create explanation/theory: ie. Howard becker studied jazz musicians randomly and took field notes and realized that many of them smoked weed.
