[CRM1300] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (32 pages long!)
30 Mar 2017
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Developed as a science for the state. Crim as a discipline grew up as the state started looking at the just distribution of security. The body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes the processes of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting to the breaking of laws. Its objective is the development of a body of general and verified principles and of other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime and treatment . Science: deductive start with a theory and test it (general specific) as you get data you hone the hypothesis/theory. Post-modern: analytic, more inductive no hypothesis, gather data first then find a theory. Cross between consensual to conflict when you feel like you must replace the whole system/institution. Pathology of criminals lombroso"s insistence on the accurate and deliberate measurement of the physical abnormalities of known criminals has for many established him as the first fully scientific criminologist.
