- Criminology (and criminal justice), CCJ, produce more degrees than sociology
- CCJ granted more degrees overall and at a faster rate in 10 years (1999-2009) than sociology
- CCJ bachelors and advanced degrees granted more than sociology degrees
- 88% of top CCJ Programs are in their own department
- CCJ Create more scholarly articles than Sociology graduates 

Under Social Sciences

- It's a multi-disciplinary field that originates mostly from Sociology, most theoretical paradigms orignate from Sociology
- It does not have a consistent methodology or theoretical framework, no common assumption
- Isolation creates less knowledgeable undergraduates and allows for outside influence such as the Government from influencing the major
- Most professors in this major do not come from a CCJ background

Under Sociology

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


Ohio State University, Columbus

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

Wrede, C., & Featherstone, R. (2012). Striking out on its own: the divergence of criminology and criminal justice from sociology. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 23(1), 103–125. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2011.641574

Striking Out on Its Own: The Divergence of Criminology and Criminal Justice from Sociology

Savelsberg, J. J., & Sampson, R. J. (2002). Introduction: mutual engagement: criminology and sociology? Crime, Law and Social Change : An Interdisciplinary Journal, 37(2), 99–105. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014552932605

Introduction: Mutual engagement: Criminology and sociology?

Lacey, N. (2012). Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle (eds), What Is Criminology?. Punishment & Society, 14(4), 493-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474511408849

Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle (eds), What Is Criminology?

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

Difference between Crime and Deviance

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

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