SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Police Misconduct, Karla Homolka, Arrest Warrant

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Objectivist and subjectivist (sociology theories only) weeks 4 and 5. Objectivist (consensus approach) relies on the assumption that there is a consensus among the people. We can study criminals because we can observe them and they we can identify that they are different from non-criminals: individual look at the individual attributes, look at genetics, where they grew up, or their childhood. It is definitely caused by something, thus try to find a solution. Those that don(cid:709)t tend to have a label on them and are criminalized: conflict no consensus, those with power decide, those that have no power are subjected to the decisions made by people with power. Constructions of crime (sacco readings) not from lecture. Reporting crime (sc vs wcc) slingerland reading. Csi effect the t. v show csi was able to influence peoples perceptions of what crime is and what crime solving could do. People expected the same results as they see on tv.