SOCI 2450 Study Guide - Final Guide: Altruistic Suicide, Social Learning Theory, Buffer Overflow Protection
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Criminology: an interdisciplinary profession built around the scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour. Ideology: the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc. , that guides the criminal justice system. Such a body of doctrine, myth, etc. , with reference to some political and social plan, as that of fascism, along with the devices for putting it into operation. Criminal law: body of law that regulates actions that have the potential to harm interests of the state. There are three essential characteristics of criminal law: politicality- enforced by political authorities, specificity- specific rules regarding human conduct, uniformity- rules apply to everyone equally. Ferri: wrote a book, first to talk about criminal statistics. The application of scientific techniques to the study of crime and criminals. Saw their behaviour as influenced by innate constitution and immediate environment. Punishment must be strictly related to the offender. Saw sentences as a measure of crime prevention. Insisted on the idea of penalties to the individual criminal.
