WDW101Y1 Quiz: WDW205TEST1notes.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: Woodsworth College Courses
• Course: WDW101Y1
• Professor: Scot Wortley

Document Summary

Criminology: the scientific approach to studying criminal behavior. It deals with the processes of making laws, of breaking laws, and of society"s reaction to the breaking of. Chapter i laws: criminal justice: describes, analyzes and explains the behavior of justice agencies. Overlap: criminal justice experts must understand the nature and cause of crime to design effective programs of crime prevention and rehabilitation. (crime control penology: deviance: the study of behaviour that departs from social norms. If an illegal act becomes a norm, should its criminal status be reevaluated? (sociology of law) Positivism: (1) human behaviour is a function of external forces beyond control (2) uses scientific method to solve problem. Individual"s relationship to education , family life, and peer relations is the key to understanding human behaviour. Quetelet: first social scientists to use objective mathematical techniques to investigate the influence of social factors.