SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enrico Ferri, Car Alarm, Selfishness
12 Apr 2016
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Week 2-thursday, september 17, 2015: non-sociological explanations (objectivist) Theory: theoretical concepts, variables (independent and dependent, hypothesis. Objectivist (consensus) approach: individual (genetics, where they grew up, their childhood, consensus (majority agree what is right and wrong, causation (answering the why, what is the cause?) Subjectivist (conflict) approach: label, power (who has power to define crime and apply the law, conflict (there is no consensus) Midterm: 2 major ways to describe and explain crime^^^^^ Non-scientific: myths and legends, contemporary, demonic perspective, witch craze, modern witch hunts. Appropriate: profit, seriousness (punishment should be related to the seriousness of offence, discourage crime, value, consistency. If they see someone punished they won"t engage in same actions ex: public hangings: specific deterrence (direct personal effect of punishment. Being punished conforms you to not want to be punished again. ) Cp does not seem to work as a deterrent: findings: (innocent, discriminatory, circumstantial, in canada there was the death penalty.
