SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Disorder, Price Fixing
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Us selling crack cocaine to black community to fund the contra army war efort. What does social norms do? regulate individuals behaviour. Just because an action is "immoral", does not make it a crime ex. spitting on the hallway loor. Crime brings out the ugly side of individuals: legal: Rational (sane, willful), mature ---- children who kill are not deemed as rational (intent) Scientiic explanation: description (deinition and data, explanations (theoretical perspective based on theorists views, policy recommendations (solutions) Causes: sociological: a number of theories of crime, psychological: mental and personality disorders. Description (how many, how long, what kinds, when, where, why) Commits crime if they think they wont be detected. Morality is of no importance (comes in last) Results in crime: fraud, price ixing * calculated risk: when you sell defective products and ultimately make more money when the person returns to get it ixed. Key characteristics *** one of the exam questions ***
