01:920:222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Falsifiability, Philip Seymour Hoffman, White-Collar Crime
4 Apr 2016
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Ideology: explanation and justification of how things function, dominant ideology in the u. s, good people are rich, and rich people are good, an explanation to explain crime is that it is due to laziness and. Pre-enlightenment ideas: divine right to rule bad choices, feudal system, lot in life is pre-ordained, no free-will, demons, witches , and superstitions, punishment through torture and execution, was extremely barbaric system of justice. In theory you could make punishment so severe that crime becomes extinguished. Perceptual and objective deterrence: perceptual deterrence, criminal behaviour affected by perceived certainty , severity, and celerity of punishment, objective deterrence, the actual certainty, severity, and celerity of punishment affects criminal. Involves punitive sanctions(objective or perceived) designed to influence the behaviour of individuals other than those punished: specific deterrence, to discourage the sanctioned individual from engaging in future. If those who do it and do not get caught = perceive less risk, less sanctions.
