Sociology 2266A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Routine Activity Theory, Nationstates, Culpable Homicide
31 Oct 2016
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A general category of crime that includes homicide, attempted murder, robbery, assault, and other mostly indictable offences that involve the physical violation of a person. Violent crime rates and the cost of crime. The financial cost of crime to canadians has been increasing over the last decade. Violent crime is much more serious in the united states than in canada. Criminologists have identified certain factors that can exacerbate (make worse) the violent tendencies that lead to violent crime: abusive families, competing cultural values, the availability of firearms, gang motivation, human instinct, personality traits, religious values, substance abuse. The act of causing the death of another person, whether directly or indirectly, by an unlawful act or negligence. Non-culpable homicide: homicides considered legally justified (those committed in self defence) Culpable homicide: murder, manslaughter and infanticide. In addition to murder, encompasses other ways of causing death such as infanticide (killing a child within a year of birth) and manslaughter.
