Crim 101 Notes Essay

What is criminology? A social science studying nuisance and related phenomenon such as law making, illegal behavior, victimization and penalisation Discipline of criminology is a recent development Most ideas and concepts we now sacrifice about nuisance and criminals emerged over last 2 or 3 centuries Modern criminology is multi-disciplinary (inter-disciplinary) Influenced by sociology, psychology, and biologyThe fascination with aversion execration is touristed topic for newspapers, TV shows , books and movies There is little relationship between crime news and performual amount of crimes Media focus primarily on ruddy crimes, even though such crimes forms only smart part of both criminal activity Appears as though police solve much crimes and arrest more cirminals than they do in reality The appeal of crime stories and crime newsCrime related stories are often spectacular and lurid Deal with moral questions of good vs evil Criminals appear in stories as insane or danger ous psychopaths Stories happen in niggling time span- between newscasts or newspaper editions Easy for the public to clear Felsons 10 fallacies about crime Book 1. the dramatic hallucination o keep ratings high, media seek strange/violent incidents to report/ relieve oneself dramas around murder makes up less than 1% of all crime, as yet from watching TV or reading the papers, it seems like a timeworn events seems that most murders are well-planned, grisly affairs, or they happen solely by random chance in fact, most murders start as arguments that compound into violence most crimes are relatively minor property crimesActus Reus a real event, in which somebody has positionted or failed to commit an act b. Men Rea criminal intent you must have the intent to commit the act c. No legal defense or justification d. mustiness be contrary to a provision of criminal law Crime as normative violation pictures Mala in Se Mala in se something bad or evil in itself Laws that criminalize acts most societies and cultures score are inherently wrong, e. g. , murder and incest Mala ProhibitaMala prohibita something that is deemed to be wrong or criminal only because it is prohibited Acts where there might be considerable variety from society to society re their legality Concensus vs. conflicy * consensus * conflict * Society as a functional organism * Society and social transformation grow in social conflict * Norms/expectations establish on shared determine/interests * Society not organic or natural. But forced upon us * Those who are different (e. g. ,criminals) are deemed to be abnormal * Society/laws based on values and interests of those with the power