CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Criminal Law Of Canada, Social Control Theory, Penology
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What is crim: criminology: the scientific study of crime , crime: an act punishable by law , the discipline of criminology is a relatively recent development (boyd, 2015, systematic study of crime didn"t begin until 10th century (i,e. , during 1800s) Cirme in canada: first criminology program in canada appeared in 1951, at ubc, in the department of. Social sciences (terminates 1959: school of criminology created at university of montreal in 1963, department of criminology established a university of ottawa in 1967, school of criminology established at sf 19973. Criminalization: criminologist study criminalization process how certain behaviors become criminalized over time, while others become decriminalized (e. g. , abortion was illegal in canada, but is now legal, also, study stigmatization process how offenders come ti be demonized and labelled. Media effects: social scientist began to study relationship between crime and the media in 1960s-1970s, early studies of media effects suggested that children who watched a ot of violence on.