Criminology
Criminology 200
Criminology is a social science, entire world is a criminologist laboratory. Sutherland defined criminology as the study of the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and societies reaction to the breaking of laws. Topinard- coined the term criminology.
Criminal Justice- term first used in 1967. President Johnson had the Wickersham committee and talk to people about police brutality, bad judges, and see what the story was really about. The report the Wickersham committee gave to Johnson recognized that police, jail and court were subsystems and all these things as a whole is a criminal justice system. The study of criminal justice derived from that. How is it organized? What is the policies are procedures?
Consensus view- the law is made for the general good of the people.
Conflict view- people who make the laws are hungry for power and caters to special interest groups.
Indiana has list of infractions a,b,c,d. D is least serious, A is most serious.
Misdeamenor – cannot be put in jail for more than one year. Indiana has 4 classes for misdeameanor – a,b,c,d. A is most serious, D is least serious. D jail sentence maybe 30 days. A is a year maybe. Jail is short term incarcertation (year or less). Murder is the most serious felony in Indiana. How many classes of Indiana are there? 5. Murder, A, B,C,D.
Deviance could be something that just doesn’t seem right or could be something that actually hurts people. Tattoos to murder, rape.
Crime- particular behavior that happens at a particular place and time the violates law.
Bucario wrote essay of crimes and punshiment. Too brutual of punishment for petty crimes. Revamping legal system in his country and all over Europe.
01/15/13
1700’s Classical school of thought- human beings have free will. Have the ability between choosing right and wrong. If you have free will, you are responsible for behavior because you choose your behavior.
Classical thinking- society can
Criminology is a social science, entire world is a criminologist laboratory. Sutherland defined criminology as the study of the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and societies reaction to the breaking of laws. Topinard- coined the term criminology.
Criminal Justice- term first used in 1967. President Johnson had the Wickersham committee and talk to people about police brutality, bad judges, and see what the story was really about. The report the Wickersham committee gave to Johnson recognized that police, jail and court were subsystems and all these things as a whole is a criminal justice system. The study of criminal justice derived from that. How is it organized? What is the policies are procedures?
Consensus view- the law is made for the general good of the people.
Conflict view- people who make the laws are hungry for power and caters to special interest groups.
Indiana has list of infractions a,b,c,d. D is least serious, A is most serious.
Misdeamenor – cannot be put in jail for more than one year. Indiana has 4 classes for misdeameanor – a,b,c,d. A is most serious, D is least serious. D jail sentence maybe 30 days. A is a year maybe. Jail is short term incarcertation (year or less). Murder is the most serious felony in Indiana. How many classes of Indiana are there? 5. Murder, A, B,C,D.
Deviance could be something that just doesn’t seem right or could be something that actually hurts people. Tattoos to murder, rape.
Crime- particular behavior that happens at a particular place and time the violates law.
Bucario wrote essay of crimes and punshiment. Too brutual of punishment for petty crimes. Revamping legal system in his country and all over Europe.
01/15/13
1700’s Classical school of thought- human beings have free will. Have the ability between choosing right and wrong. If you have free will, you are responsible for behavior because you choose your behavior.
Classical thinking- society can