CRCJ 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Moral Insanity, Panopticism, Eye For An Eye
21 Apr 2016
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The study of penalty, that examines the structure and systems of punishment. Questions what the structure and systems of a society"s punishment methods tells about the nature of their social systems. One important factor suggested for the change in punishment is that crime and punishment is now a political issue. Victimology is the study of crime victims and the patterns of victimization. Their role in the crime, there interactions, relationship with the victimizer, their characteristics. Victimology enhances criminology and criminal justice research and theory by filling in important gaps in our knowledge about crime and justice. Criminalization is the process of making a particular act or type of behaviour illegal when it was previously legal, Formal: a formal process of legislating social problems into criminal code ex: drugs, texting, racing. Informal: when individuals or groups can be steered through the criminal justice system because they are deemed potentially dangerous or menacing. Is an absence of conformity to social norms.
