CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beveridge Report, Fred Titmus, Crime Science

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 2653
• Professor: Paul Baxter

Document Summary

1st chapter: talks about experimental criminology, left realism. 2nd chapter: talks about chicago school, strain theory: highlight the different methods that criminologists use, understand the political stakes of criminology. Criminological research isn"t the kind of social science research that is done out of academic interest there is a substantive real life difference between studying criminology and other fields of society. ^-when we study criminology, we are developing ideas, seeking to either substantiate and destroy myths about crime or criminals that will eventually have an impact of society and criminology. Crime is a policy matter, the government writes criminal law. ^-your safety is tied to the authorization we give the state. Criminological research is both timely in the sense that it is relevant to real world circumstances, and it has policy implications for how the state ought to respond to crime.