SOC212H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Market Manipulation, Anomie, Snowball Sampling
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Criminology in canada chapter 1: crime and criminology. People"s understanding of crime and criminal justice generally comes from media coverage of highly publicized cases. Criminal justice system: 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: science study of nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behavior. Criminologist: one who brings objectivity and method to the study of crime and its consequence. Criminology and criminal justice: these two words although seem similar, they have major difference. Criminologists explain the etiology(origin), extent, and the nature of crime. Criminal justice scholars describe and analyze the work of police, courts and correctional facilities. These two do overlaps, help each other and develop. Deviant is more widely defined as behavior that departs from social norms and is not always subject to formal sanction.
