SOCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Norm (Social)
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Explain what is meant by the term criminology. Criminology is the scientific approach to studying criminal behavior. Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon and entails the processes of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting toward the breaking of laws. The goal of criminology is the development of a body of general and verified principles and other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime, and treatment. Identify the difference between crime and deviance. Criminology explores the etiology (origin), extent, and nature of crime in society. Criminologists are concerned with identifying the nature, extent, and cause of crime. The study of deviant behavior refers to behavior that departs from social norms. Included within the broad spectrum of deviant acts are behaviors ranging from violent crimes to joining a nudist colony. Many crimes are not unusual or deviant; many deviant acts are neither illegal nor.
