CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexting, Dependent And Independent Variables, Actus Reus

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

There is no such thing as criminology. The people who research criminology come from a whole variety of other disciplines. Criminology is a field of study rather than a discipline. Criminologists are united by the interest to study crime. Legal, consensus, constructionist & conflict different approaches to define crime. Crime is diverse (it takes a number of different forms) Crime and criminals are normal (we"re all criminals) Crime is widespread, and it is not confined to a small number of repeat offenders. About 10% of canadians have a criminal record (3. 4 million people) only people who got caught. Deviance criminal law crime (criminal law is a dotted line between the two concepts) Everyone thinks of crime as if it"s in a box. A crime is an act or a failure to act, which violates the criminal law. Tapan (1987) crime is an international act in violation of criminal law committed without defense of excuse, and penalized by the state .