CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Essentialism, Social Constructionism, Cultural Studies
8 Jun 2016
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Interdisciplinary subject: medico-legal science, psychiatry, scientifically oriented psychology. 1879 paul topinard: french anthropologist, used the term criminology . 1885 raffaele garofalo: italian law professor, studied lombroso, coined the term criminology . Identify characteristics that separate criminals from non-criminals: physical characteristics. Better the criminal justice system to reform criminals. Turns crime into a thing, which we turn into a study. Cultural studies, sexuality studies (interdisciplinary: having more than one origin creates contradictions. Criminology: theoretically informed, meaning and understanding of crime. Criminal justice: focused on the study of administrative response to the study of crime. Context of the statue (displayed in a public park) Statues of men objectifying women are okay, but a woman objectifying herself in inappropriate. The study of criminal justice and penal system. The meaning of crime is not given or inherent but rather achieved. Acts are not intrinsically criminal they are understood as criminal when we apply the term to an act: ex.
