Lecture notes containing the emergence of criminology and contexts of criminological studies as a distinctive discipline.
What is criminology?
How does Criminology affect our daily lives?
What shapes knowledge and understanding of crime?
How do we define crime and how is crime recorded and r...
Crimino
combining enquiry and understanding of Law, t
psycho-analysis, econom
The study (enquiring, learning, understanding, eva
, Founders
Topinard ( 1879) French Anthropologist – studied crim
Cesar Beccaria (1738-1794) criminal punishment refo
John Howard (1726-1790) Prison studies
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) Basing morals and legi
Francis Gall (1758-1828) – Phrenology/Cranology – an
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) – Crime as a trait of hu
physical traits
Andre Guerry
, CRIMINOLOGY CONS
➤ The ‘Science of Crime’ :Stu
explain behaviour d
deviant.
➤ Sociology of Law: The con
are enacted and why.
➤ CriminalEpidemiology: The
geographical & temporal natur
, CONSIDER OUR DI
Criminologists are interested in
◾Criminogenesis :the pa
people to habitual law-brea
◾Crime Perpetration: the
why individuals commit
crime
Problem-Alternatives-E
, CRIME AS A NORM
PHENOMENON
Crime is necessary; it is bound
fundamental conditions of alls
very fact it is useful, bec
of which it is part are t
to the normal evolution of mor
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