CRIM1010 Final: Criminology- Introduction

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM1010
• Professor: Bianca Fileborn

Document Summary

The seductions of crime: we are fascinated by crime because it tells us something about ourselves, katz argues that we all grapple with these desires to engage in criminal behaviour. Should they be extended the same civil and political rights as humans: headgar- social contention in france. Maybe they support it: school/job, your information sources, mass media- can shape our views on the contemporary problems of society. Adjudicating between competing values/ achieving consensus: labelling certain behaviour as criminal is protecting unequal social order (radical) Could we have a crime-free society: emile durkheim- (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t have a crime free society, our society is organised in such a way that crime is a necessity and inherent aspect of our society, it cannot be non-existent. What is criminology: criminology as a discipline came into being in the late 1800s, the te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:858)(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)i(cid:374)olog(cid:455) (cid:449)as (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1009) (cid:271)(cid:455) affaele.