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Scientific study of the nature, extent, cause and control of criminal behavior
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Criminology
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Theory of crime causation: crime is viewed as a function of personality, development, social learning or cognition
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Psychosocial
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Theory of crime causation: Correlations of antisocial behavior such as biochemical, genetic and neurological links to crime
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Biological
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Theory of crime causation: Social forces producing criminal behavior such as neighborhood conditions, poverty, socialization and group interaction
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Sociological
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Victim's behavior is often a key determinate of crime
Studying victim culpability in the participation of crime Designing services for crime victims |
Victimology
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First scholar to develop a systematic understanding of why people commit crimes
Created classical criminology: people have free will to choose criminal or law solution |
Cesare Beccaria
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Founder of sociology and _______
_______ uses problem formulation and hypothesis creation to conduct research of data, observation, experimentation. |
Auguste Comte & Positivism
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Father of criminology and _______
________ thought that criminals were how they were because of atavisitc anonmalies (head & jaw shape) |
Cesare Lombroso & Biological determinism
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Used societial stats to investigate the influences of social factors and the propensity of crime
Discovered that season, climate, population and poverty were linked to crime |
Emile Durkheim
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Examined neighborhood conditions & poverty levels that influenced crime rates
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Chicago School-- Robert Ezra Pound, Earnest W. Burgess and Louis Wirth
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Children developing in conditions that foster inadequate self images, which render them incapable of controlling their own misbehavior
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Socialization as a result of criminal activity
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Human behavior is shaped by interpersonal conflict and that those who maintain social power will use it to further their own ends
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Conflict theory (Marx)
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Crime is a product of the capitalist system; the economic system produces conditions that support a higher crime rate
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Critical criminology (Marx)
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Behavior that departs from social norm but not necessarily criminal
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Deviance
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An act that is deemed dangerous and socially harmful, specifically defined, prohibited and punished under law
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Crime
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