SACR 2600 Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Criminal Law Of Canada, Edwin Sutherland
19 Dec 2013
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Different crimes have different ways of committing and different punishment and has different ways of criminal behaviour. Definition of criminology (by edwin sutherland and donald cressey): the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. To learn more about our social lives, including criminal behaviour and society"s response to the behaviour. Before understanding how to cure and reduce crime, we need to understand crime. We are related to crime directly or indirectly. Social distribution of crime characteristics of people who commit, trends in occurrence of crime over time, different rates and types of crime between places. Causation of crime why people commit crimes while others are law-abiding. Patterns of criminal behaviour who are the offenders and who are the victims. The royal canadian mounted police (rcmp) enforces some federal laws for all provinces and territories. Also acts as a provincial police force except ontario, quebec, and parts of newfoundland and labrador (which have their own provincial police forces)
