SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Truism, Homicide, Alcohol Intoxication

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

Document Summary

As part of the project of moral levelling, entirely new areas of deviancy, such as date rape, and politically incorrect speech, have been discovered. Also, old areas, such as child abuse, have been amplified by endless reiteration in the public. It is hard to believe that the tendency toward improved treatment is so drastically reversed in one generation. 2/3 of crimes aren"t reported, for child abuse, 2/3 crimes are never proven. People are trying to find cases, when they cannot be found, they are invented. 47 percent of women are victims of rape/attempted rape, 25 percent of women are victims of complete rape according to catharine mackinnon. Rape has been expanded to include behaviours that should not qualify as rape. Even the victims do not recognize it as rape. Rape is so radically defined up (including offering a drink and being verbally insistent) it is no surprise that it is an epidemic.