CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Essentialism, Tim Newburn, Legal Formalism
5 Apr 2016
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09/06/2013 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Paulette= mondays 4:30-5:30 @ loeb c577 building. Wednesdays= wednesday 1:30-2:30 @ loeb building c577. Octopus books- 116 third ave off bank street. 2% a day late penalty (electronic option permitted) Criminology is a interdisciplinary subject with origins in; applied medico-legal studies and psychiatry. They study both people or object through whom thought or action is present. Origins: 1879- paul topinard and 1885-raffaele garofalo: both used the term to reference the study of punishment and treatment of criminals. Criminology is more theoretically informed and focused on meaning and understanding of crime. While criminal justice is more focused on the study of the admin response to the study of crime. Criminology is the study of crime, those who commit crime and the criminal justice and penal system. As well as the behavior to crime and the cause of crime.
