SOC212H1 Midterm: Chapter One: Crime and Criminology
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Chapter one - week one: sept 13th, 2016. Criminal justice system: stages through which the offender passes, including police, courts and corrections. Intimate violence: crime that occurs in the context of familiarity, such a spousal abuse, child abuse, or elder abuse. Criminology: the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause and control of criminal behaviour. Criminologist: one who brings objectivity and method to the study of crime and its consequences. Development of criminal law, and its use to define crime. Criminologists explain the origin, extent and nature of crime in society. Criminal justice scholars describe and analyze the work of the police, courts, and correctional facilities and how to better design effective methods of crime control. Deviant behaviour: behaviour that departs from or doesn"t conform to social norms, but isn"t defined as a crime by the law (e. g. sunbathing nude) Many criminal acts aren"t deviant (e. g. marijuana use)
