CC100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
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Edwin h. sutherland: sociology of law, scientific analysis of the causes of crime, crime control. Working definition: an interdisciplinary scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour, including their form, causes, legal aspects and control. Criminal statistics - development of reliable and valid measures of crime. Sociology of law - understanding the development, administration, and influence of crime. Theory construction - understanding the causes of crime. Criminal behaviour systems - nature and pattern if specific crime types. What are norms: acceptable standards of behaviour shared by members of a particular group or society, prescriptive function, eg. What is deviance: behaviour, beliefs or characteristics that many people in society find or would find offensive and which provoke, upon discovery, disapproval, punishment, condemnation or hostility. Vertical or hierarchical: social power, labelling of deviance. Horizontal or mosaic: any collectivity can define deviance. Societal deviance: actions and conditions widely recognized, in advance and in general, to be deviant, high consensus.
