CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Predictive Policing, Social Physics, Etiology
21 Mar 2014
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Office hours of ta: thursday 2-4pm loeb c577. Classical: studying law making, the breaking of laws and the reaction to the breaking of laws sutherland. Scientifically establish a difference in us and them. Criminalization: studying the application of criminal law. Asks different questions: trends, decreasing, increasing, victims etc (see slide) Epidemiological approach: there is crime or there is no crime. Critical criminologists: trouble this idea of crime is a obvious observation. Look at crime as a form of a disease. Study of society and various forms of behaviour. Social physics and moral stats studying human behaviour. Social physics: we can find patterns of human behaviours that can vary according to factors. Crime occurs among the young contemporary criminology. Maps of distribution of crime in france quetelet. Tried to discover an association with the climate and crime. Looked at broader scales and broad patterns of human behaviour. New software"s develop to guide policing strategies predictive policing.
