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Crime and Criminology e Crime ¢ Durkheim on crime ¢ Criminology ® Docsity.com Results of the survey (N=38) Questions N % Have you ever thought of committing crime? 30 78.9% Have you ever committed crime? 34 89.4% Have you ever been arrested? 9 23.6% Docsity.com Crime can be defined as… • Form of normal behavior • Violation of behavioral norms • Form of deviant behavior • Form of inequality Docsity.com Form of normal behavior • Protecting family/children • Fighting back (cases of domestic violence) Docsity.com Mather Gets 5 Years For Killing 2 Ill Sons - New York Times - Windows Internet Explorer yr [ & http: /query.rytimes. comfast fullpage.htnrl?sec=healthtres=9D03E7D91E39F 922005 7S2C0A9659C 8863 »| 4X |ambils son who sufers rama dsease | oks GSN [@] PP GI} weather @)ACLRado ~) Tony ~)Soc320 B) WSU Libraries (G)pPstat ] Soc 361 Pi] science | NewsTarget | vt | & Mother Gets 5 Years For Killng 2 Ill Sons - New York Ti Internal Validity soc_methods Sp Latent Growth Models » fap 7 Ge > [pp Page > {Gp Tools HOME PAGE ] My TIMES ] TODAY'S PAPER | veo ] MOST POPULAR ] Tiwes TORIES ] GetHome Delivery |Log in | Register Naw EheNew York Ei ny, wer en H ealth [_amerprise Financial Search Mother Gets 5 Years For Killing 2 Ill Sons Published: January 30, 2008 & emai Awornan charged with murder for shooting to death her two Bent terminally ill sons pleaded guilty today to breaking the state's assisted- Ce save . suicide law and was sentenced to five years in prison. 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Used Car Denation Cars » Sponsor a Child Bay Area Car Donation » Car Donation San Jose Red Cross Car Donation a Sit @ internet Meredith's Story Sexual Abuse starting at 4 Started drugs at 13 Pregnancy at 14 Drug addiction at 18 Abusive boyfriend at 19 Check Fraud at 21 Sentenced at 21 Ironically, Meredith describes her prison experience as “…probably the best thing that’s happened to me.” Docsity.com Form of inequality • For many years, human rights groups have attacked Nike (and other companies) for the low pay, terrible working conditions, abusive treatment, and for the use of child labor Docsity.com Nike Workers cannot drink water or go to the toilet when they want Workers receive less than the legal minimum wage, even though Nike makes huge profits “Abusive treatment", physical and verbal, is exercised on a everyday basis Docsity.com Crime is inevitable • No society can ever be entirely free of crime • A community of saints in a perfect and exemplary monastery cannot be free of “crime” • Faults that appear venial to the ordinary person will arouse the same scandal as does “normal crime” • Absolute conformity to rules is impossible Docsity.com Crime is useful • If crimes were not committed, then the values of society would become blurred • If there is no punishment, then there would be no way of reestablishing the values that the crime offends Docsity.com Crime is useful • Crime is indispensable to the normal evolution of law and morality • Rosa Parks (was a criminal) is a hero now • Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution Docsity.com Crime (legalistic definition) • Crime is an act in violation of a criminal law for which punishment is prescribed Docsity.com Legalistic definition • Some activities are not crimes even though they are immoral (watching pornography, torturing animals, creating poor working conditions) • No law= No crime Docsity.com Domestic Violence • Twenty-five years ago, police, prosecutors, and judges did not view domestic abuse (rape and battering) as real crime but rather as private matter where the woman to blame • No law = no crime Docsity.com '‘Eco-mafia'' • The developing South (particularly African countries like Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Algeria and Mozambique) has become the dump for hundreds of thousands of tones of radioactive waste from the world's rich countries Docsity.com Nuclear waste drums found by Greenpeace • IIlegal dumps - among the largest in the world - in Somalia, where workers handle the radioactive waste without any kind of safeguard or protective gear - not even gloves • The workers do not know what they are handling, and if one of them dies, the family is persuaded to keep quiet with a small bit of cash Docsity.com Interactionist View of Crime • The main idea behind the interactionist approach to deviance is that the definition of what is criminal is socially negotiated • “It is not act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant” (Howard Becker, 1966) Docsity.com Another Scenario • A young male of 18 is walking home late one night through the city streets singing at the top of his lungs • The police are called and the young man is taken to the police station • When he gets there he explains that earlier that day he has been out with his friends to celebrate birthday • He has no previous police record • When asked for his address and telephone number the police realize that he lives in a notorious housing estate that has a high rate of criminal activity. • The police call his father who arrives looking not very embarrassed. He apologizes to the police but they are unimpressed • The boy is charged with breach of the peace Docsity.com Relativity of crime * Space ¢ Time ¢ Social context Docsity.com Adultery is crime Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Sudan, and some of the northern states of Nigeria practice a very strict form of Sharia law Sharia law requires that married or divorced persons found guilty of Zina (adultery) be executed by stoning Docsity.com The vocabulary of Homicide • Murder is the name for legally unjustified, intentional homicide (legal and moral meanings) • Execution is the name for justified homicide (when terrorists kill their enemies) • Journalist Ambrose Bierce: “Homicide is the slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference -the classification is for the purposes of the lawyers”. Docsity.com Vocabulary of homicide • Debate about abortion • Those who oppose call it murder • Those who favor legal access to abortion speak of “terminating pregnancy” or “removing tissue” • Different moralities-different vocabularies • Crime is socially constructed? Docsity.com What is deviance? • Deviance involves the violation of group norms which may or may not be formalized into law • Some examples: criminals, alcoholics, people with tattoos, compulsive gamblers, and the mentally ill Docsity.com Deviance • Deviant behavior is human activity that is statistically different from the average • Deviance and crime are concepts that do not always easily mesh • Some forms of deviance are not violations of the criminal law and the reverse is true as well Docsity.com DEVIANT ILLEGAL ILLEGAL And DEVIANT Relationship between crime and deviance Docsity.com