CRIM 2653 Lecture 1: What is criminology 2653
18 Apr 2016
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Criminology is booming, numerous departments, research centres and undergraduate programme are opening each year the theories change within time there is no one right theory or wrong theory. Criminology can be viewed as a discipline, this piece of writing the authors have taken a normative perspective, writing from different perspective about the way they view criminology. Criminologists research and position differs places to places for example countries like norway and sweden differs from america and britain. Norway and sweden look at a more parsimonious approach to punishment which means they spend more money unwillingly towards punishment. Government distorts criminological research for political gain according to. Tim hope and reece walters, we live in a society where the government manipulates or cherry-picks criminological knowledge and produces distorts pictures of the crime problem. Criminology is not dying out because of the recent huge rates of it being taught in school, research and publication.
