SOC 0005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prosocial Behavior, Financial Crimes, Mass Media
22 Dec 2017
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Nothing succeeds like failure: difficulty in admitting defeat or failure for americans. Police & prisons for over 50 years: crime has generally increased, with periods of decline. See quote (p. 18) by g. w. bush"s john dilulio: essence: crime is not demonstrably lower than it was 50 years ago [we] have sacrificed civil liberties. Although crime has declined in recent years: us still has a substantially higher rate of crime than other western industrial democracies, u. s. has a much higher rate of lethal violence in the form of homicide compared to. European countries (some of which have high levels of theft and property crime). Crime has eroded the rights of citizens: criminal justice industrial complex makes policy more on the basis of profit than public safety, "excuses" for high crime rates. Excuses for failure: reiman argues against the validity of these excuses - he thinks they are false reasons for our high crime rate. We don"t know. [we lack the knowledge. ]
