Permachart - Marketing Reference Guide: Uniform Crime Reports, Actus Reus, Indictable Offence
Document Summary
Criminology concerns itself with the etiology, prevention, control and treatment of crime and delinquency. As criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals, criminological theories and typological explanations help us to understand how and why crime occurs. This permachart provides an outline of the major theoretical and substantive approaches used by criminologists to understand criminality. The origin, scope, and perspectives in criminology involve a set of core issues including the concepts of crime and law and the nature and extent of criminality. The law defines the behaviors that society deems to be criminal. Criminal defenses: ignorance or mistake are not legally justifiable defenses, a defendant can be held not criminally responsible on account of: m mental disorder m intoxication under certain circumstances m duress m necessity m self-defense m entrapment. Definitions: crime is conduct in violation of criminal laws, deviance is conduct that violates social norms, not all crimes are deviant and not all deviance is criminal.