CJ 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Forensic Science, Law School Admission Test, Prison Officer

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 100
• Professor: Douglas Klutz

Document Summary

Careers: police officer, some college experience but not needed. Intelligence careers: looking for all kinds of backgrounds (foreign languages and advanced computer skills, private detective, can have own firm. Criminology: definition- scientific study of why individuals commit crimes, biological, psychological, sociological. History of criminology: the demonic perspective of crime, the dominant theory of crime was the demonic perspective up until the mid. 1700s: crime was said to be the result of supernatural forces. Kids: the positive school, lombroso argued many criminals were (cid:498)genetic throwbacks(cid:499) (cid:523)primitive people in modern society, first attempt to justify crime by biology, born a criminal or non criminal (not reliable today) Cj 3: paved the way for looking at the genome to cause behavior, rise of sociological theories, growth of cities and industry caused crime, earnest burgess and concentric zone models, zone 2-zone of transition is highest crim. Juveniles were especially impacted: learning to be a criminal, differential association theory or learned criminal behavior by edwin.