SOCY 387 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Malum Prohibitum, Victimology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 387
• Professor: Vincent F Sacco

Document Summary

Criminologists are asked to suggest how society should respond to crime. Finally, criminologists monitor how changes in the laws and their interpretations affect how people behave in society and, in turn, how agents of social control respond to these behaviours. When criminology is taught outside of criminology and criminal justice departments, criminology is treated as a sub-discipline of sociology. Sociology has been the most important home of criminological training in north america because sociologists tend to be more involved in the study of social problems. European criminologists tend to focus more the legal part of it. Gary parkinson as early as 1951, ubc intimated a criminology program in its social sciences department. 1953 ubc offering a ba, ma, and postgraduate diploma in criminlogy. 1954 became a department in all but name: now, more than 2 dozen schools offering a distinct criminology program. Us criminology growing most strongly as a field of study spurred by federal funding in the 70"s &