CRI205H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: White-Collar Crime, Anomie, Elder Abuse
26 Jan 2017
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Criminal justice system- the stages through which the offender passes, including police, courts, and corrections. Intimate violence- crime that occurs in the context of familiarity, such as spousal abuse, child abuse, or elder abuse. Criminology: the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behavior. Criminologist: one who brings objectivity and method to the study of crime and its consequences. Criminologists explain the etiology (origin), extent, and nature of crime in society, whereas criminal justice scholars describe and analyze how to better design effective methods of crime control. Deviant behaviour: behaviour that departs from or doesn"t conform to social norms, but isn"t defined as a crime by the law. This model depicts the relationship between crime and deviance along three dimensions: **figure shows the most serious acts of deviance are also the least likely to occur. Decriminalization: reducing the penalty for a criminal act, and its illegality.
