Crime and deviance intro
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- Created on: 22-12-17 10:51
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- Crime and deviance
- Crime
- Breaking the law, an unlawful act
- Societies define crime as the breaking of one or more rules or laws for which some forces prescribe punishment
- What constitutes as crime tends to alter according to historical, cultural and power dimensions
- However, what may be a crime in one society is not necessarily so in another
- Deviance
- Acts that violate the accepted norms and values of society
- Deviance is in the eye of the beholder and who defines the act as deviance
- Deviance depends on the time, place, power, who, tradition and culture.
- Biological and Psychological
- Lombroso
- Criminals are a separate species. They are 'Born criminals'
- For example, different types of criminals have different features
- Murders have curley hair and bloodshot eyes
- For example, different types of criminals have different features
- Criminals are a separate species. They are 'Born criminals'
- Sheldon
- Classified people into 3 groups depending on their body shape
- Endomorphic(fat & soft)= sociable and relaxed
- Ectomorphic (Thin & fragile) = restrained and introverted
- Mesomorphic(hard & muscular)= aggressive and adventouros, prone to crime
- Classified people into 3 groups depending on their body shape
- Eysenck
- Extroverts need excitement so they are more likely to seek crime in order to gain this excitement
- Raine
- 1994, he used PET scans to study the living brain of impulsive killers
- Damage was found in the pre-frontal cortex which controls impulsive behaviour
- Lombroso
- Crime
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