SOC 1500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Takers, Child Neglect, Jock Young
18 Oct 2016
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Types of law in canada: administrative law. Labour law, environmental law, licences: civil law. Includes: crimes against person, property crime and offences that are wrong with no obvious victim (illegal drug use) Actus reus (guilty act) + mens rea (guilty mind) Social reaction perspective: many rules and laws discourage deviant behaviour in society. Argues so(cid:272)ial groups (cid:272)reate de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)y (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g rules (cid:449)ho"s i(cid:374)fra(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutes deviance then apply rules to particular people to label as outsiders. Empirical reality- media depiction of reality pertaining to crime: official statistics. Reported as absolute numbers and crime rates. Uniform crime reporting (ucr): known by police to have taken place. Reports on categories such as: violent crime, property crime, criminal code violators. Crime equation # of police reported crimes (100,000)/population= crime rate of. Anonymous serveys for people who may have committed crimes. Report on crimes that may not have been brought to attention of police.
