CRJS 2009 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Uniform Crime Reports, Content Analysis, Homicide
13 Sep 2016
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Study of criminal violence is anchored in criminal law; without law the behaviour may be violent but not criminally violent. Criminology, criminal justice, and public health perspectives are not compelled to view criminal violence through the lens of criminal law. Essential characteristics of a discipline is that it contributes its unique view to an understanding of a phenomenon. The three perspectives may each view the same phenomena differently from the way they are viewed by criminal lawyers and other practitioners. If the victim dies, the charge is changed to criminal homicide. The two crimes are legally distinct and are processed differently because the homicide ends in death and the assault does not. Analysis of the police records however indicate that the two types of crimes have similar characteristics. Homicides are related to assaults in that socioeconomic status, temporal patterns and racial, age, and gender distributions.
