SOCPSY 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edwin Sutherland, Cesare Lombroso, Psychopathy
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What is criminology: criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. The criminological enterprise: criminal law (a. k. a. the sociology of law, crime statistics, criminal behaviour systems, theory construction, operation of the criminal justice system (inc. penology, victimology. Operation of the criminal justice system (including penology): the nature and operation of, the police, the criminal courts, the correctional system, crime control and the likelihood of repeat offenders. Drinking and driving being the deviant behaviour to becoming an criminal behaviour: when should acts deem criminal become legalized, ex. Crime or deviance: uncommon behaviours, are all uncommon activities crimes, no, are all crimes uncommon, no. Early legal codes: written word of law = recent invention, historically, the law was characterized by, customs and traditions, folkways and mores, an eye for an eye , expectations of individual behaviour based on community standards, e. g.