CRIM 12000 Lecture 13: Criminology Lecture 1
29 Apr 2019
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Criminology is the study of the etiology of crime what causes crime and why. To answer that question, we seek to detect crime and to measure it in all its dimensions: Where, when, and why is it distributed in time and place. Where, when, how, why and who is committing it. Where when, how, why and who are the victims. Based on an assessment of that information, a response or a treatment is prescribed in both a preventative and curative context if possible. Criminology seeks epistemological understanding so as to better prevent and respond to crime in a social/communal context and to minimize its negative. It is impossible to speak of one specific cause for the wide range of behavior classified as criminal: macro, micro. You cannot call something a cause of an event if it rarely produces the event. Many factors impact in a non-causal context, and would more appropriately be called:
