Edwin Sutherland and Paul Tappan held two different theories on what makes a criminal. What are those theories?
What will be an ideal response?
Sutherland did not agree with the legal definition of criminal behavior. He did not believe that actually being convicted of a crime makes you a criminal. An offender cannot be convicted and still have committed the crime. Society determines what a criminal, not the courts is. Tappan held that society’s norms do not make a criminal the actual conviction makes a person a criminal. A specific penalty must be imposed on a person who is found guilty of the crime creates a criminal and nothing else.
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a. True b. False
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a. True b. False