SOC379H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)
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Defining things as criminal that causes harm to people. Suicide is morally wrong, but wont be charged. Use of drug laws in the united states, crack cocaine used by african. Americans and cocaine being used by white people. more harsh penalties for crack cocaine. Crime might be telling us more about ourselves than the criminal. How do we have an understanding of how crime exists. 64 murders one year vs 80 one year. Tough to say that stats tell us anything. A given class that will just stay criminal. Why are some crimes enforced more than others. Audience (media/social movements: moving from the individual to organizations. Example: alienation from society links to violence. Who is likely to do a crime. Looking at the criminal as an entity in a box: constructivist. Progress/regress argument: crime as an object of study. Outline: crime as an object of study, law and morality.
