CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bezuidenhout, Victimology, Law
30 Dec 2020
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Siegel according to siegel (2013:4), criminology is the scientific approach to the study of criminal behaviour. Latin term crimen means crime and logo means a study or knowledge . Therefore, the word criminology means the study of crime. First use of this term was in the nineteenth century coined by the french sociologist called toppinard. Walsh criminology is an interdisciplinary science that gathers and analyses data on various aspects of criminal, delinquent and general anti-social behaviour. Edwin. h. sutherland is celebrated as the father of american criminology. Schmalleger (1996:12) maintains that a criminologist is a graduate who makes a study of crime, criminals and criminal behaviour. According to brown, esbensen and geis (2001) and gibbons (in bezuidenhout and. Little 2011:14) on criminologist is someone whose professional training, occupational role and earnings or remuneration mainly relate to a scientific approach to the study and analysis of crime phenomena and criminal behaviour.
