CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Habitual Offender, Drag Racing, Polyamory

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Crime as an object of study; criminalization processes; origins of criminology; definitions of crime; deviance. Oxford ; new york : oxford university press, pp 143-154. Outline: criminological emergence, pre-criminological social forces, social contract (liberal revolution, beccaria and classical theories. 5: marxist theories of crime, scientific revolution and positivism, rafter"s barriers to criminology, emergence of criminology; rafter"s two stages, lombroso and the italian school. Key themes that define criminological studies: the systematic/structured study of crime and society, criminologists believe that there is no such thing as a born criminal. They are contested (disputed), as well: focused on the three cs of criminology: cops, courts, correction, the task of criminology". There is no one solution to crime. Understanding crime requires more than the gold-digging approach the idea that studying crime/statistics will give the answer to crime for a definitive universal solution to crime. Criminology requires a procedural approach conceives of criminology as more of an ongoing effort (river analogy in text/below).