CRIM 101 Lecture 4: Section 4 Notes
12 Oct 2015
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Criminology seeks epistemological understanding so as to better prevent and respond to crime in a social/communal context and to minimize its negative impacts. 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 a non-casual context, and would more appropriately be called: contributing factors, precipitating factors, accentuating factors, aggravating factors, compounding factors. Justice will be realized only when people are willing to obey the unenforceable. An interdisciplinary social science-based field of study that seeks an etiological understanding of the preventative and curative aspects of crime. In doing so, it seeks to develop better measurement and diagnostic capabilities and ultimately, better preventative, control, and treatment options. Science is constrained due to deep-rooted social, economic, and political factors (ala dr.
