SOC 2136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thorsten Sellin, Edwin Sutherland, Forensic Science
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Are useful for making sense of the diverse forms of criminal behavior (as with human behavior more generally) Development of a body of general and verified principles and other types of knowledge regarding this process or law, crime, and treatment. Criminology as a science (discovery of constants in the relationship between certain defined facts) Defined criminology as the study of: the making of laws, the breaking of laws, responding to the breaking of laws. Offers a defense of a more restricted definition of crime. Valid to define crimes as those offenses for which a defendant is adjudicated in a coup of law. Machinery of justice determines who is a criminal. Crime is an intentional act or omission in violation of criminal law, committed without defense or justification, and sanctioned by the state as a felony of misdemeanor : paul tappan. Include all acts of deviance from societal norms or approved standards of behavior.
