Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 98: Informal Social Control, Human Behavior, Positive Law
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Is an interdisciplinary profession built around the scientific of crime and criminal behavior, including their form, causes, legal aspects, prevention and control. Form touches on soc, law, history, political sci, anthropology, bio, psych, economics, medicine. Where did this definition come to be: causes factors that increase or decrease in the likelihood of someone committing a crime. Some forms of crime are not always seen as deviant: examples, underage drinking. Speeding: deviance (and crime) vary in time and space, time and space, decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969. What should be criminal: consensus perspective, pluralistic perspective, conflict perspective. Laws reflect the collective will of the people. Pluralist perspective: many diverse social groups exist within society, each social group has its own characteristic set of values, beliefs and interests, age groups, men and women etc. In 2005 sex-clubs were not seen as bad enough to be illegal.
