SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Crime Prevention, Uniform Crime Reports, Victimless Crime
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Three big questions organizing the study of crime: Studying crime and deviance = studying normalcy (nor just the perpetrators but the population as a whole)/ studying societies expectations. Boundaries of acceptability: an object of inquiry instead of taken-for-granted. The criminal code de nes crime as the intentional violation of criminal law without defence and without excuse. Politicality: laws are enacted by the legislature. Looking at what is legal/illegal is part of the political process. (social movements, lobbyists, and political groups will attempt to change laws, take them away, or come up with new ones) Speci city: sets out, to the point, exactly what is a crime and what isn"t a crime. It"s the idea of due process", to balance your rights, and to make sure that there are many procedures that the system needs to go through to prove guilt.
