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Definition of Criminology (By Edwin H. Sutherland) |
Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, of breaking laws,and of reacting toward the breaking of laws…The objective of criminology is the development of a body of general and verified principles and of other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime, and treatment or prevention. |
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Definition of deviance |
Criminologists use the term deviance to describe behavior that violates social norms,including laws. |
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Definition of crime |
A crime is any human behavior that violates a criminal law and is subject to punishment |
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Consensus View on Law and Crime |
Lawmaking is an accommodation of interests in a society. Lawmaking is to produce a system of laws and enforcement to which everybody basically subscribes. Certain acts are deemed so threatening to the society’s survival that they are designated crime. |
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Conflict View on Law and Crime |
The law expresses the values of the ruling class. The criminal justice system is a means of controlling the classes that have no power. Conflict theorists claim that a struggle for power is a far more basic feature of human existence than is consensus. |
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Definition of Criminal Justice |
The structure,function, and decision processes of those agencies that deal with the management and control of crime and criminal offenders:the police, the courts,and corrections. |
