[CRIM 104] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (53 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Why do we need/use theory: to understand behaviors/events, to develop and test potential solutions to problems. Explanatory framework + empirical testing = policy recommendations. Property offences, violent offences, white collar crime, vandalism, drug offences, organized crime. Sociological theories: focus on deviance at individual and aggregate level. Include objective norm violations and subjective social definitions: may see deviance as a process of active designation. Biological and psychological theories: focus of nonconforming and illegal conduct of others, view deviance as the violation of establish social norms. The way people think and act, the things they do, the structure of society. Personal influences of teachers, colleagues, other significant others. Explain social structure/the way the world works. Ask why some societies have higher crime rates: micro-theories. Ask why john doe (or people like him) commit crimes: bridging theories (meso-theories) Focus on social structures and how people become criminal. *table 2. 1 disciplinary approaches to the analysis of deviance and crime.
