CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Control, Shoplifting, Environmental Crime
22 Oct 2014
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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes the processes of making laws, of breaking laws, and of reacting to the breaking of laws. The objective of criminology is the development of a body of general and verified principles and other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime, and treatment. Causes, patterns, control of uses method of established social science. Records, experiments, surveys, historical data, content analysis is interdisciplinary. Determining the nature and cause of specific crime patterns. Study involves describing, analyzing, and explaining the agencies of justice. Norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members. They may be either prescriptive (don"t) or proscriptive (do). There are two special two special types of norms that were identified by william graham. Sumner: mores (right and wrong) and folkways (right and rude).
