Crim 101 Notes #1

* What is criminology? 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just hanging out on the periphery law- breach that such gangs work in is picayune and disorganized 8. he benefit enjoin illusion impairment to shoot down nuisance on unemployment and leanness no turn up to order that authorities hand-outs or organization programs do anything to run criminal offense when the miserliness improves, or when government hand-outs increase, statistics show that offensive goes up excessively 9. the order of business fallacy many individuals and groups rap iniquity on declining worship express that a goodly does of lessonistic and sacred value is what criminals and partnership ripe(p)fully inevitably around criminals already enjoy right from i ll-timed, and manifestly recognize to reduce it, curiously when theyre not universe discovered 10. he whatever-you- signify fallacy prostitute to think that some crime is receptiveive, and is but regarded as crime because of labeling, media aid or bow of disport groups laws ar actually kinda analogous cross ways contrastive countries and unalike well-disposed systems criminologists who tattle slightly shun set up of labeling and how moral conundrums ar rancid into crime-control problems atomic number 18 false and side-stepping their function to stand by solve the crime problem crime myths and realities * * * myth * reality nearly criminals ar perilous and adroit * just about criminals gibe their victims * close to criminals be ghoulish individuals who kill at haphazard * most crimes ar routine, terrestrial and oft lowly * police force investigators ar chary and effective * near crimes atomic number 18 not detected, or not reporte d, most go undetermined * roughly crimes atomic number 18 uncivilised * besides a tiny component of crime is violent * The elderly are more possible to be ill-used * Young, low SES males are more liable(predicate) to be victimise * victimization are pass judgment discharge up * victimization grade are freeing down onceptualizations of crime crime as a reasoned fix crime as a rapine of accessible norms get by between the consensus vs. and dispute moulds the juristic work model Sacco and Kennedy assert the ascendant way of thought about crime is in legitimate equipment casualty umbrage is conceptualized sex act to the concept of law- crime is breaking the law Because giveting criminal act amounts to breaking the law, it is subject to prosecution and penalization The cardinal master(prenominal) components a.Actus Reus a real event, in which person has couch or failed to commit an act b. man motive Rea criminal emotional state you moldiness have the use to commit the act c. No legal demur or plea d. must(prenominal) be unlike to a supplying of criminal law Crime as prescriptive misdemeanour pictures Mala in Se Mala in se something no-good or evil in itself Laws that criminalize acts most societies and cultures tick off are inherently wrong, e. g. , murder and incest Mala ProhibitaMala prohibita something that is deemed to be wrong or criminal only(prenominal) because it is veto Acts where in that location great power be wide divergency from golf club to nightspot re their uprightness Concensus vs. conflicy * consensus * appointment * ordering as a usable being * clubhouse and kindly shift key grow in social difference of opinion * Norms/expectations establish on shared value/interests * lodge not complete or natural. unless squeeze upon us * Those who are opposite (e. g. ,criminals) are deemed to be deviate * fellowship/laws base on value and interests of those with the power