LS227 Study Guide - Final Guide: Actus Reus, Regulatory Offence, Mens Rea
5 Dec 2016
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Criminology refers to the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. Process of making laws, breaking laws and reacting to the breaking of laws. The objective of criminology is to develop a body of general and veri ed principles and other types of knowledge regarding this process of law crime and treatment. Our behaviour is strongly in uenced by norms. Rules are internalized and enforced through in informal means. Crime is an act that violates the criminal law and is punishable by sanction. Crime is socially de ned and varies by society. Consensus theorists believe that laws represent the will of most people in society. Con ict theorists believe that laws re ect the wishes of the ruling class. A crime consists of a prohibition against certain conduct and is subject to a sanction. The federal government has the jurisdiction over criminal law.
