CCJS 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Interpol, Legal Age, White-Collar Crime

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology & Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 105
• Professor: katie Zafft

Document Summary

Criminology: a combined science of social, psychological, and biological sciences to e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)e (cid:449)h(cid:455) people (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it (cid:272)ri(cid:373)es a(cid:374)d (cid:449)h(cid:455) the(cid:455)"re involved in the criminal justice system. Goal: to understand crime and how that understanding benefits society. Direct: emotional suffering of victims, cost of maintaining criminal justice system, salaries, building maintanence. Indirect: security devices, protective devices (i. e. guns, insurance, medical bills, taxes. Interpol = international criminal police organization: database for crime statistics from 188 participating countries, murder, assault, rape, and theft are all universally condemned crimes, (cid:862)mala i(cid:374) se(cid:863) cri(cid:373)es: inherently evil acts. Criminality: clinical/scientific term used to describe the internal urge individuals have to commit a crime: a trait everyone possesses; emerges differently in individuals, chara(cid:272)terized (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)allous(cid:374)ess, e(cid:373)path(cid:455), i(cid:373)pulsi(cid:448)e(cid:374)ess, a(cid:374)d emotionality. Sociopath: criminality is not a legal term and therefore cannot indicate a criminal. Corpus delecti: (cid:862)(cid:271)od(cid:455) of the (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e(cid:863); ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of a(cid:374) a(cid:272)t that (cid:373)ake it a (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e.