CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deterrence Theory, Actus Reus, Restorative Justice

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Steven Bittle

Document Summary

Atempts to make sense of a range of crime: makes criminology so diverse. A scieniic approach to studying crime (making, breaking and enforcing law). Lindens 6 major areas of criminology: deiniions of crime and criminals, origins and role of law, social distribuion of law, causaion of crime, paterns of criminal behaviour, social reacions to crime. Many venues for current criminology: government work, community organizaions, research databases, universiies, vicims groups, etc. Criminology vs. criminal jusice: criminology likely to quesion about what is crime and how to respond to it, criminal jusice how systems funcions and how to make it beter. 4 major quesions: why is any given behaviour deemed worthy of legal response? o. Diferent images of jusice: fairness, equality, humans rights, public protecion, ranges from formal to informal. 5 types of jusice (these are all applied diferent, have diferent contexts and have diferent responses to crime: criminal jusice, civil jusice.