SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Actus Reus, Social Order, Malum Prohibitum
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Readings and lectures on stratification, race and ethnicity, gender, sexual. Online lectures on taxes, inflation, correlation, movie assignment part 2. Movies: the one percent, light bulb conspiracy, between: living in the hyphen. Studying crime and deviance is studying norms, studying society(cid:495)s. Studying crime and deviance means studying normalcy. Taking the boundaries of acceptability as an object of inquiry instead of expectations taken-for-grated. Three big questions organizing the study of crime. Two questions have dominated the field of criminology for a long time. And more recently, a third one has emerged and is gaining an importance. The social and sociology to study its substantive topic: crime. Criminology combines elements from psychology (sometimes biology), law. Sociology comes in and speaks to the role of the (cid:494)socio(cid:495) in understanding crime and deviance: class and stratification, race and ethnicity, gender, culture, socialization, social interaction. Criminal code defines crime as: (cid:498)the intentional violation of criminal law.
