Sociology 201: Criminology 2nd Meeting

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Hello, class. Please take a seat. I hope you are working on your reading for next Monday.

Grissom gives an introductory lecture, and hands out lecture notes

As a class exercise, I would like you to do the following -

Outlined in the lecture are 9 different types of crime. Please refer to the chart in the middle of the packet for more details. I would like for you to rank them in order of what you believe to be the worst type of crime, to the least.

Crimes against the state
Crimes against persons
Crimes against habitation
Crimes against property
Crimes against public order
Crimes against administration of justice
Crimes against public morals
Crimes against nature
Crimes against environment

Your participation will be noted, and discussion is anticipated.



Partner List for Class

lauraholt & _steele_
cameronmitchell & whitedeathpod
rosefern_todd & maias_notebook

chloe_sullivan, timothy_drake, darkchylde_, call_me_red_ac and emo_knight do not yet have partners. I will assign them randomly on Monday if you do not choose your own. If you are not on this list but want to take this class, let me know immediately and I will add you to the roster.

Comments

Re: Chloe's list

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

Those two were actually the hardest to rank for me. Because, in my opinion, they almost coexist.

State usually houses (for lack of better term) person and persons make up the state. Crimes against one usually affect the other.

Re: Chloe's list

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

*nods* I think in the end I went with state first because I reasoned that if the state gets compromised, there is no one to protect the individual. But yeah, without citizens there is no state to begin with.

Re: Chloe's list

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's hard to rank one in front of the other because they go hand in hand. Without state, the citizens are unprotected and could descend into something like anarchy without a government or something similar to set guidelines.

Without citizens, there is no military, industry, or commericialism that the state thrives on.

Re: Chloe's list

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

*agrees and admires your brains*

Re: Chloe's list

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

*smiles and loves it when Cam shows his smarts*