CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Actus Reus, Mens Rea, Socalled
26 Jan 2013
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A social science studying crime and related phenomenon, such as law making, criminal behaviour, victimization, and punishment . Discipline of criminology is a recent development. Most ideas and concepts we now have about crime and criminals emerged over last two or three centuries. Modern criminology is multidisciplinary (inter-disciplinary). influenced by sociology, psychology, and biology. Crime is popular topic for newspapers, tv shows, books and movies. There is little relationship between crime news and actual amount of crime. Media focus primarily on violent crimes on violent crimes, even though such crimes form only small part of all criminal activity. Appears as though police solve more crimes and arrest more criminals than they do in reality. The appeal of crime stories and crime news. Deal with moral questions of good vs. evil. Crime-related stories are often dramatic and lurid. Criminals appear in stories as insane or dangerous psychopaths. Stories happen in short time span- between newscasts or newspaper editions.
