CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cesare Lombroso, Robert Pickton, Anthropological Criminology
2 Feb 2017
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Police get more bad ratings because they are out in the public eye, criminologists and judges are not. Murdered up to 60 women, only tried for 6, fed bodies to pigs and buried along property. Police ignored when families of women reported them missing, because they were minorities which allowed for robert to get away with it. Criminal behaviour is behaviour in violation of the criminal law. Behaviour is not a crime unless it is prohibited by the criminal law. Laws are usually de ned conventionally as a body of speci c rules regarding human contact. Laws are enforced by punishment administered by the state. This approach implies that the de nition of crime is a function of. The beliefs, morality and direction of social authorities and is applied uniformallu to everyone in society. Behaviours outside of standards are deviations which may be considered a crime. Illegal was de ned as the poor (minorities) upsetting the rich.
