CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Panic, Copycat Crime, Psychopathology
21 Apr 2018
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What is criminology: criminology , crime , the discipline of criminology is, systematic study of crime did not begin until. The demographic shift: beginning in 1960s, population of young males in canada, us and uk increased dramatically, 15-24 the most crime-prone years , number of women in workforce doubled during the 1960s and 1970s, due to. Rising crime rates: 1960s and 1970s also time of. Increase in alcohol consumption, increase in divorce rates, increase in: dramatic increase in crime rates, throughout, contributed to greater interest in. Criminology as an interdisciplinary social science: criminology tends to be, draws on sociology, psychology, biology, law geography, economics. Includes the study of law; the history of law; the criminalization process; crime prevention and crime control: sociological explanations e. g. , anomie-strain theory, social control theory, labelling theory have dominated criminology, however, earlier 19th century explanations .
