CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Life Imprisonment, Victimology, Content Analysis
1 Feb 2015
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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. Studies criminal behavior: causes, patterns, control of. Uses methods of established social science: records, experiments, surveys, historical data, content analysis. Is interdisciplinary: sociology, criminal justice, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics, the natural sciences. Criminal statistics: create valid and reliable measures of crime. Sociology of law: history of law, law reform. Criminal behavior systems: determining the nature and cause of specific crime patterns. Penology: correction and control of criminal behavior. Victimology: nature and cause of victimization. Criminal justice system: study involves describing, analyzing, and explaining the agencies of justice. Concepts about society: 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 types of norms that were identified by william graham.
