- People choose to rationally commit crime through their free will by measuring the pain vs pleasure created from their action
- Two main contributors: Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham

Classical Criminology

- Many different theories related to conscious and unconscious reasons and reasoning for why people commit crimes, began with Freudian Psychology

Psychological Theories


- Using the shape of the skull to determine if someone was or is a criminal and what their personality (the first one to tie the mind to the personality)

Phrenology (Precursor to Positivism)

Economic Theory

- Applying sociological theories to understanding crime

Criminological-Sociological Theory Definition

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

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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

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

How Crime is Measured in the USA

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

Criminal Justice System

Deviant actions violate social norms, whereas crimes violate laws, which are codified norms. An action can therefore be deviant without being a crime—for example, picking one's nose in public. Under these definitions, crimes are deviant actions, but not all deviant actions are crimes.

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