CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Penology, Muckraker
1 Apr 2016
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What is criminology: criminology = the scientific study of crime , crime = an act punishable by law , the discipline of criminology is a relatively recent development (boyd, systematic study of crime did not begin until the 19th century. Rising crime rates: 1960s and 1970s also time of social and political upheaval. Increase in alcohol consumption, increase in divorce rates, increase in use of mind altering drugs: dramatic increase in crime rates, throughout 60s,70s,and 80s, contributed to greater interest in discipline of criminology. Criminology as an interdisciplinary social science: criminology tends to be interdisciplinary in nature, draws on sociology, psychology, biology, law geography, economics. Criminalization: criminologists study the criminalization process how certain behaviours become criminalized over time, while others become decriminalized (eg, abortion was illegal in canada, but now it is legal, also study the stigmatization process how offenders come to be. Demonized and labelled : also examine net-widening how new laws and new methods of.
