SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shoplifting, Squeegee Man, Social Constructionism
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1: but the term suggests there is a plan. It is really a product of diverse tensions and issues, things that are going on: and that there are no tangible effects if its all made up socially. Honour killings, lavallee and battered women"s syndrome: sneaky thrills, stealing for excitement, further divides them into 2 categories, boosters are more professional, snitches steal on impulse, three stages of shoplifting, critical to pleasure experience of crime. Germany: they have show emotional distance, they are transcendent of this order and they also show this hypermasculinityy. It relates to their own moral code and the way they place themselves in conventional society. Criticisms: categories of offenders objectively unproblematic, falls into the trap that sc tries to take us out from, offender as separate entity for study. 4: there is no homeland to go back to since they are second generations, frankfurt is all they know, but more: meshes with (supposed) islamic values.
