Crjs 105 Unit 1 Theories Crime Causation
Criminology is the study of crime, criminals, criminal behavior, as well as corrections it inspects the response of crime from society and the prevention of crimes. What does Criminology include? Many do ask. Well it includes the examination of criminal evidence, psychological and hereditary causes of crime, numerous approaches of investigation of crime and conviction of offenders also the effectiveness of changing types of sentencing, correction and rehabilitation. A criminologist is really a social scientist their main focus is on criminology and they also specialize in researches, studies as well as analyzing social behaviors. Criminologists observe the normality of behaviors most common in society and deviations of these social normality’s. As well as the importance of recognizing that all societies have their own behavioral normality’s and deviations of those normality’s. Now that I have explained what criminology is and what criminologist studies are I will move on to criminalistics. (What is a Criminalist? 2011)
Criminalistics is the forensic science that examines and interprets evidence while using natural science. Forensic science relates to all sciences applied to lawful issues. Criminalists examine and identify physical evidence found in order to rebuild the scene of the crime. Physical evidence is most often things such as weapons, parts of cloths, bloodstains, drugs, or sometimes the vapor in the air. They link the physical evidence between the suspect and the victim of the crime. Clothing and hair fibers transferred from a suspect to victim and vise-versa and can offer a link as well as fingerprints, bullets, and shoe or foot dints in the ground or in areas are that also very important links. Physical evidence is obtained from the crime scene and includes the body of the victim also the adjacent area of the crime. Criminalists also receive their evidence at the laboratory, which was gained from the crime scene by crime scene investigators. To
Criminalistics is the forensic science that examines and interprets evidence while using natural science. Forensic science relates to all sciences applied to lawful issues. Criminalists examine and identify physical evidence found in order to rebuild the scene of the crime. Physical evidence is most often things such as weapons, parts of cloths, bloodstains, drugs, or sometimes the vapor in the air. They link the physical evidence between the suspect and the victim of the crime. Clothing and hair fibers transferred from a suspect to victim and vise-versa and can offer a link as well as fingerprints, bullets, and shoe or foot dints in the ground or in areas are that also very important links. Physical evidence is obtained from the crime scene and includes the body of the victim also the adjacent area of the crime. Criminalists also receive their evidence at the laboratory, which was gained from the crime scene by crime scene investigators. To
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