CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Victimology, Participant Observation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Daniel Alati

Document Summary

Criminal behaviour is behaviour in violation of the criminal law. A crime is a violation of societal rules of behaviour as interpreted by a legal code created by people holding social and political power. Criminal justice refers to the study of agencies of social control that handle criminal offenders, specifically police departments, courts and correctional facilities. Deviant behaviours are behaviours that violate social norms, but aren"t crime by law. The relationship between crime and deviance is illustrated in hagan"s varieties of deviance which depicts it along 3 dimensions: the evaluation of social harm, the level of agreement about the norm and the severity of societal response. Example of consensus crimes: murder, rape, manslaughter. Example of social diversions: j-walking, public nudity . Early years of criminology (prior to 1700 a. d) Cesare beccaria (1738-1794) writings described both a motive to commit crime and methods for its control.