CRCJ 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jargon, Ottawa Police Service, Cybercrime

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Erin Mc Cuaig

Document Summary

January 5: chapter 1 introduction to course subject/preliminary overview. Textbook notes: in this text, the term criminology will refer to the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the processes of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting to the breaking of laws. Mu(cid:272)h of the ti(cid:373)e (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)iousl(cid:455) thi(cid:374)k about the rules that govern our behaviour. Sutherland said that criminologists should also include violations of other types of laws in addition to criminal law. The schwendingers proposed that crime be defined as a violation of human rights. Hagan felt that criminologists should consider deviance and crime as a continuum ranging from the minor acts of deviance to serious crimes: crime is socially defined. No behaviour is inherently good or evil, and we must understand the social context of an act before we can determine whether it is deviant and how it should be classified.