CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Victimology, Social Forces, Environmental Crime
30 Oct 2017
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Issues of treatment of individuals in the criminal justice system such as transgender. Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, breaking laws and reaction toward the breaking of laws (sutherland and cressey) As such it involves 1: the development of theory, 2) the formulation of research hypotheses; 3_ the collection of information to test research hypotheses, and 4: the evaluation of research findings. The criminal law: a) law creation: the role social forces play in shaping the criminal law; b) the law in action: the role that the criminal law plays in shaping society. Crime statistics a) how common is criminal behaviour? b) what social factors are related to crime? c) how does the extent and nature of crime change through time. Micro (individual), meso (group), and macro (structural) levels of explanation.
