The Multidisciplinary Field Of Criminology

According to the dictionary criminology is a scientific study of crime and offenders. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field because it involves social and psychological components in its basic goal of understanding crime and criminal behavior. Criminology is not primarily concerned with the criminal justice system. Rather, it involves study and research intended to better comprehend why crime occurs. In order to understand, and address, criminal conduct by an individual. According to Macmillan. Siegel “Criminology is a scientific study which relates both the person and society to the criminal behavior, including the nature, extent, causes, and control of this behavior. Since Criminology is fueled from different field like behavioral sciences, sociologist’s, social anthropologists and law therefore it is an interdisciplinary field in these academic fields”.

Criminology was developed to help understand why individuals commit crime. There are a lot of factors behind offenders committing crime. Such as opportunity, self-perseverance, lack of money or resources for self or family. Sometime people who commit crime are not criminals. People sometimes make mistakes in life that some can’t come back from. People in low economic class are more likely to commit crime because of the lack of resources. Low economic class people don’t have good jobs or
Some are the choice theory, trait theory social structure theory, social process theory, critical theory and the developmental theory”. Classical theory suggest that people make a choice to commit a crime and that crime and that crime can be controlled if potential criminals fear punishment. Bernard believed that crime can be controlled if people feared the punishment for the crime. Crime and punishment should be balanced and fair which means that if a person committed a crime such as theft his or her punishment wouldn’t be the death