SOCI 2445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operation Ceasefire, Ope, Crackdown
11 Dec 2015
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Lectures 1 & 2 (september 8 & 15, 2015): introduction. Armed chair criminologist: someone with not practical or direct experience in the criminal justice system or related field. Empirical criminologist: based on scientific method and evidence. Argument: waging war on crime is the best way to fight crime: misplaced metaphor, implies that we have enemies within our society. Criminology: the making of the breaking of law and the reaction to the breaking of law. Criminal etiology: scientific analyses of the causes of crime. Penology: concerned with the control of crime. Basic gate keepers: police, courts and prison: goals are different among three, not a system, no connection between them, independent of each other. Procedural law: also known as due process, refers to the way the state will deal with violators, protection is afforded. Substantive law: description of the acts that are forbidden in the criminal law and the punishments that are imposed.
