SOCI-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Panic, Jury Trial, Indictable Offence
15 Oct 2018
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Crime: puts others or self at risk, violation of laws, actions that violate social norms. Perspective will influence the understanding of crime but can change varying on what crimes. Lobby groups, politics, international events, the economy, and public outcry can change perspective. Public interest groups (i. e; madd), the media and the government can influence change. Criminology: the knowledge that regards crime as a social phenomenon. It includes both the process of breaking and making laws and the reactions towards laws breaking. Cesare lombroso (1835 - 1909) one of the first researches in the criminology field. Using empirical data (facts, observable information and statistics) to search for an answer as to what causes crime. He used a biological approach and suggested causes of crime comes within the person. Using many years of post-mortem examinations of criminals and the insane, lombroso thought the. Born criminal could be anatomically defined with such physical characteristics:
