CRIM 2650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Homicide, Cesare Beccaria, Biosocial Theory
Document Summary
Crime commentary succumbed to the temptation ot exaggerate and sensationalize, to suggest crimes exceptionally lurid and injurious compose the bulk of america"s crimes. Reports from media of killing happens so often that we are desensitized to violence. Crime is prevalent in society, with much of it being unreported. In most affluent industrial societies, deliberate killing is a rare event. Many people believe that crime is caused by factors such as unemployment, bad family life, and lenient courts. Social experiences shape the ways in which people think about crime: colonists living in a religious society made sense to attribute crime to demons to control those who fell prey to temptations of sin. Arrogance allows us to accept interprotations as correct speaking negatively of how our predecessors acted against crime: thoughts about crime is conditioned from social experiences. Understanding why crime occurs is a prelude to developing strategies to control behaviour.
