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UNDERSTANDING CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY
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UNDERSTANDING CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY
WHAT IS CRIMINOLOGY?
MIXTURE OF DISCIPLINES/INTERDISCIPLINARY SUBJECT
Medico-legal science
Psychiatry and psychology
History
Social reform movements
Sociology
Sociology of deviance and control
Legal theory
THREE TRIBUTARIES
Study of crime
Empirically-grounded
Study of those who commit crime
Study of criminal justice and penal systems
OBJECTIVES
Process of law
Treatment
Prevention of crime
AUTHORS
David Garland
'A specific genre of discourse and inquiry about crime'
Garland
'Governamental project'
'Lombrosian project'
Lacey
Crime as a social phenomenon
Sutherland
'The study of making of laws, breaking of laws and society reaction to the breaking of laws'
CRITIQUE
Hillary and Tombs
'Crime excludes many serious harms'
'Crime has no ontological reality'
'Criminology perpetuates the myth of crime'
'Crime consists of many petty events'
Nowadays
HIGHLY POLICY-ORIENTED
CRIMINOLOGY ≠ CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CRIME AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Annotations:
Crime as a social construct
HISTORICAL VARIATION
GLOBALISATION
USA
NATIONAL PROHIBITION ACT
MANUFACTURE
SALE
ALCOHOL (1919-1933)
BRITAIN
1960s "PERMISSIVE AGE"
SMOKE IN PUBS (2004)
ABORTION ACT (1967)
SEXUAL OFFENCES (1967)
OPIUM ILLEGAL
UNIVERSAL VALUES
WHAT IS CRIME?
NO INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
"WAR CRIMINALS"
MACHINERY OF JUSTICE
PRIVATE CORPORATIONS
EDWIN SHUR
Observe the criminal law
He and sociologist
Labelling theory
Roots of labelling theory = social constructionism
Labelling acts= criminalisation
NILS CHRISTIE
Crime does not exist. Only act exist
CRIMINOLOGY IN BRITAIN
Medicine subject
Association of scientific treatment of criminals
British journal of criminology
British society of criminology
Scientific group for the discussion of delinquent problema
UNDERSTANDING CRIME
CRIME
Taken-for-granted meaningfulness
Same use of the term
Acts = crimes vs Acts ≠ crimes
Difficult differentiation
Example: Spanner case
Sadomasochistic activities with consent
Consent or assault?
The judgement
Lasting injuries = crime
CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL LAW
Prosecution and punishment in a court
ZEDNER
Crime: criminal and a civil wrong simultaneously
If there were no criminal law, there would be no crime
Sanction
Criminal justice agencies
Act in violation
Committed without defence
Penalized by the State
Felony
Offender
No presumption
Guilty
Characteristic of crime
Behaviour which is prohibited
Punishmment
Act as a social harmful
White-collar crime
Other forms of puishment
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