- Complicated diagram by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the Criminal Justice System in America

Criminal Justice System Diagram

- The Criminal Justice system is anything related to the arrest, prosecution, defense, imprisonment and supervised release of criminals

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Study of etiology, prevention, control, and treatment of crime/delinquency, including detecting and measuring; crime, legislation, criminal law practice, law enforcement, judicial, and the correctional system.

Criminology

“Criminal Justice System.” Definition of Criminal Justice System - Oregon Legal Glossary, www.oregonlaws.org/glossary/definition/criminal_justice_system. 

Oregon Laws "Criminal Justice System"

Possible Placements for Criminology:
- Under Social Sciences, as a "root node"
- Under Sociology, its current location, as in it' s not a discipline


Debate on the Placement of Criminology:

- Violent Crime
- Property Crime
- White-Collar Crime
- Organized Crime
- Consenual Crime

Types of Crime

Criminology References

- Classical
- Positivist/Biological
- Economic
- Psychological
- Sociological

Major Criminological Schools of Thought

How Crime is Measured in the USA

- Deviant actions violate norms, picking your nose in public
- Crimes violate laws which are codified norms
- Not all deviant actions are crimes but all crimes are deviant actions

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