CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Etiology, Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics
4 Oct 2015
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What is criminology: criminology is the making, breaking and reaction of laws, some suggest that you should treat crime as a symptom your knowledge and research. Epidemiology the study of incidence and distribution of diseases. Weather (used as ways to predict policing: predictive policing - software used to direct patrol police of cers (based solely off of previous occurrences and and reported data). Studying patterns of criminals and criminal behaviour rather than studying the criminals as. Use knowledge provided by of cial data (police reports). of cers are not inclined to report every traf c violation or every drug possession. Its not a 100% reliable way of studying crime as not all crimes will be reported. This changes what we think we know about crime, as we are not receiving all of the details. Homicide being compiled into a suicide because a lack of concrete evidence, even. Murder accurate representation of crime (all murders will be thoroughly investigated)
