Chapter 6 Learning Objectives

Crime and Violence

In this chapter, students should learn to do the following:

  1. Understand the relationship between law and crime, and why social order is necessary in society.
  2. Understand how criminal statistics are determined and the differences between looking at statistics of conviction/imprisonment, and those of victimization.
  3. Define conventional crimes and explain why crimes of violence are labelled in this way.
  4. Understand how organized crime operate and the four conditions that allow organized crime to prosper.
  5. Understand how crime is gendered—both for offenders and victims, and why there is a gender gap.
  6. Understand the demographics of victimization with relation to crime and how certain characteristics (vulnerability, gratifiability, and antagonism) put individuals at more risk.
  7. Define secondary victimization and explain how it occurs.
  8. Understand the various theoretical perspectives that explain crime and its emergence in society.
  9. Be able to articulate the social consequence of crime, including economic inequality and racial profiling.
  10. Be able to explain the economic consequences and health consequences of crime.
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