SOC 1500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Skills, Foreign National, Commercial Bribery

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

Course topics and themes: what is crime and how to count it, crime and representation, criminological theories, regulation of particular crimes & criminal justice system, crime control / law and order vs. individual rights / due process model. Non-sociological (individual: classical criminology, new right, biological, psychological. Sociological: social structure, social process, social conflict. Official police statistics: uniform crime reporting (ucr) system crimes known by the police to have taken place are reported on the ucr data collection forms and replayed to statistics canada. The ucr includes violent crime, property crime, and other criminal code violations: canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs) the agency responsible for gathering and analyzing the reports submitted by police forces from across the country. Victims may feel intimidated by those who have offended them and the victim may feel that reporting the incident to the police could jeopardize their personal safety. Public feels that very little or nothing would be accomplished by having the police involved.