SOC 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Organized Crime, Mass Murder, Prefrontal Cortex
8 Dec 2016
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6. 3: violence: behavior that causes injury to people or damage to property. 6. 1 assault, and robbery: arrests for violent crimes. Young people ages 15-24: 37% of all arrests. The juvenile justice system seeks to reform rather than simply to punish offenders: hate crimes. 45 states and the federal government have hate crime laws that provide more severe penalties for such crimes: white-collar crime and corporate crime. Typically, such wrongdoing is handled in civil courts, but a recent trend it toward the filing of criminal charges: organized crime. Operates throughout most of the world: victimless crime. Offenses that directly harm only the offender. A behavior that causes injury to people or damage to property. Whether people view violence as a problem depends on many factors, i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g . Whether action conforms to cultural norms and values. Whether action is carried out by or against the government: most murders are committed by male offenders using guns.
