CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Critical Thinking, Moral Panic, White-Collar Crime
12 Mar 2014
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O the importance of context in criminology inquiry. Social, economic, political, cultural, and historical contexts, how does this. We have governments that can forcefully influence us on how we think of criminological inquiry. We look at societies, people in societies, how people behave as member: what is criminology, trends and patterns, we look at rates, we look at how different societies are with crime, effective and ineffective responses to crime o. It is seen as a social phenomenon of communities and members. Acts that are seen as deviant behaviour: criminological research, deductive research (testing theory) Inductive research (deriving theory from data: mainstream or traditional criminology. International approaches to criminology: crime: crime is an act that violates the criminal law and is punishable with jail terms, fines, and other sentences, there are crimes that don"t fall under this definition such as : International crimes: crime is a social construction.
