CRM 100 Midterm: Crim Notes for Test

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 100
• Professor: Dan Horner

Document Summary

There is no straightforward way to define crime. Cesare lombroso : antropologist , he thought criminals have physical anomalies. Emile durkheim : sociologist, he thought criminals are socially alienated from society. Feaudalism: a general set of legal and military obligations among the nobility of europe during the middle ages. Colonial expansion to access raw materials to feed european early industrialization and markets. Merchant class influenced politics and law making. During this time they believed that criminals were. Women unmarried and independent (constructed as witches), the poor, the unruly: non-compliant with feudal rules or religious moral values. They viewed criminology as a science and that crime can be explained through scientific knowledge. Which in fact contribute to how we as a society currently think about crime , criminals and punishment. Understand realities of crime committing: socialization, social structures (pathways to crime) Processes of criminalization: associated with laws, practices of policing and practices of racialization, gendering and classing.