CRCJ 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cesare Beccaria, George Gerbner, Demonic Possession
12 Apr 2018
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Strain theory (consensus: crime is a social phenomenon, crime is caused by social disjuncture, or social processes that represent social strain within a society. Generates restitutive sanction that aim to restore disruption through reintegration. It has an adaptive function: it introduces new ideas and practices into society. It has a boundary maintenance function: it reinforcing social values and norms. Anomie (durkheim: state of normlessness; confusion about social norms, due to rapidly changing society, when systems of regulation and moral constraints are insufficient to effectively limit. This is something that pretty much everybody does and most of the time is unlabelled, meaning that the people adopt this as their master status, and to then act on this basis. Three domains: produces (cid:498)dangerous knowledge(cid:499) because its purpose is to question all knowledge, including the status of criminology as an objective science. Corporate personality: bre-x: canadian gold mining company in 1990s.
