CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: George Klippert, Indictable Offence, David Milgaard
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In 1960, he was working in calgary as a bus driver: arrested and convicted and spent 4 years in jail, arrested for being gay. In vancouver it was illegal for chinese to operate any businesses other than laundry: died of kidney failure in 1994. Crime refers to a socially constructed concept defining certain behaviours as requiring formal control and social intervention. What is important is the processes that make something a crime. An indictable offence (canadian terminology) refers to a serious offence such as. Deviance: refers to behaviour that violates a social norm but is not necessarily prohibited by law, e. g. butting in a line at a supermarket or cutting off another driver. Decriminalization: the reduction or removal of criminal penalties attached to an act but without legalizing it. Crime is also evaluative- the characteristics of crime can change, taking different forms over time: the vikings it was normal to pillage, rape, etc. but not anymore.
