CRIM 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Summary Offence, Crime Prevention, Political Crime
16 May 2011
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What is criminology: examines crime as a social phenomenon. Includes: making laws, breaking laws, reacting to breaking laws, scientific study of human behaviour, crime causation, crime prevention, and punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. Interdisciplinary profession built around scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour: includes form, causes, legal aspects, and control. The primary criminological specialties/approaches: sociology, psychology, biology, economics, geography/environment, political science, law. Objectives of criminology: to develop body of general and verified principles regarding processes of law, crime and treatment, primary focus on causes of crime and criminality. Components of discipline of criminology: six main areas www. notesolution. com, defining crime and criminals, origins and role of law, social distribution of crime, causes of crime, patterns of criminal behaviour, societal reactions to crime. Why do we need to study crime: to better understand out social lives, both criminal behaviours and society"s responses to these behaviours.
