CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Content Analysis, Social Control, Victimology
4 Oct 2012
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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. Records, experiments, surveys, historical data, content analysis. Sociology, criminal justice, psychology, political science, anthropology, Create valid and reliable measures of crime. Why are some things legal and others not? (why is marijuana illegal but cigarettes legal?) Determining the nature and cause of specific crime patterns. Criminal justice system (we have criminology and then we have criminal justice. Some people look at why certain people get arrested, etc. some people only look at the court system and others look at corrections. Some look at the correlation between the 3. ) Study involves describing, analyzing and explaining the agencies of justice. Norms are the rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members. They may be either prescriptive (don"t) or proscriptive (do). There are two special types of norms identified by william graham sumner: Mores (right and wrong) and folkways (right and rude).
