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Criminology summary
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This document focuses on how crime can be interpreted by different people and how certain aspects of society influence the law.
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Intro to criminology notes-Key areas of enquiry-
How do we define crime?
What are the causes?
What do we do with those who commit crime?
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History List for criminology-
• 1750/60s -The Classical School and Beccaria
• Fielding’s London policing experiments
• 1780s - Bentham’s panopticon
• 1820s - Collection of criminal statistics
• 1870s - The Italian or Positivist School and Lombroso
• 1870/00s- Heredity and criminal families
• 1910s - Intelligence theories Twin research, somatotypes and endocrinology
• Durkheim and functionalist criminology
• Early African American socio-criminology
• 1920s - Psychoanalytic theories
• 1920/30s - Early Chicago School Zonal theory, life story research
• 1930s -Anomie theory
• 1930/40s-Differential association
• 1960s -Neo-Chicago School
• 1960/70s- Subcultural theory, labelling theory, Control theory, Marxist/conflict
Criminologies
• 1970s - Moral panic theory,
• New criminology
• Critical criminology
• Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
• The political economy of crime
• The justice model
• Administrative/actuarial criminology
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