CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Monoamine Oxidase, Prezi, Physiognomy

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Introduction to crime theories and biological theories of crime. Major theories = sociology, psychology, and biology informed. Others don"t fit squarely into these 3 major streams. Boyd: theories aren"t opinions but testable, repeatable, academically-informed hypotheses. Tools we have to apply to different situations and see if they fit. All these theories are kind of in competition. There"s no solution to crime, but they all want to fix it. We develop technologies to help manage crime and deviance but not fix it. Unravel, deconstruct, the concept of crime and in the process challenge common-sense understandings that are taken for granted. Wanted to replace the rule of religion. Wanted law to be transparent, regular, fair. Challenged the way criminals were dealt with. Before the classical school it was believed criminals were possessed by evil spirits or demons. Criminals = rational thinkers (they know the rules and are deciding to break them) Theory about why people do certain things.