CRM 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Class Discrimination, Cesare Beccaria, Social Change

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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the processes of making laws, of breaking laws, and of reacting toward the breaking of laws (law, crime and treatment) Propositions explain why events occur in the manner that they do. Crime does not have a single meaning, there are varied and competing perspectives. There is no one best defition of crime(every definition has strengths and weakness") Crime is always socially defined ( depends on the particular circumstances and processes involved) Formal/legal (whatever the state defines as a crime [breaking the law] ) Social harm (whether legal or illegal, an action/ inaction which brings about some type of harm is crime) Cross-cultural/ universal (things that are universally criminal such as murder) Labeling approach (only a crime if it invokes a social response labels it so)

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