Chapter 1, 2 & 3: Criminology

Political science, economics, psychology, law, biology and sociology

Controls how crime is defined and how criminal law works

Are at the heart of many of the transactions defined as crime

Often treat inmates to determine why they have broken the law as well as to provide rehabilitation to help prevent further antisocial behavi

Specify actions that society decides should be punished and how justice is dispensed

Are looking for the roots of antisocial behavior within the human body

Has contributed a lot to this field, and did much of the pioneering work in criminology

Data is incomplete

includes more information about offenses reported to the police

Gathers information about offenses regardless of whether they are reported to the police

Research based on data that is offered by respondents about themselves, may be bias

The vast number that are not reported and those that are reported but not recorded

Recording the more serious crimes

You should get the same results over and over, this makes it true

Describes what the study is measuring and what it is designed to measure

Consider crime as the product of neighborhoods that are impoverished and have transient pop. poor social and physical structure

The study of the crime and the psychological effects on them of their experience

Individual street-crime (harms small groups of people)

Very large masses of people in large criminal offenses (9/11)

Because terrorists seek to produce panic and gain media notice notice for their cause, their victims are typically civilians and occupy off.

U.S. government agencies have set up special offices and victims' funds

Terrorist attacks that occur worldwide-organized armies, paramilitary forces

Enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, other comparably severe forms of sexual violence of comparable gravity, etc

The isolation, imprisonment, sterilization, torture and murder of others first helped define the term crimes against humanity

Servian leader Slobodan Milosevic became the first head of state ever to stand trial for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide

President Omar al-Bashir wanted to be tried for crimes against humanity

Some nations offer little or no help for victims, whereas others have special laws and networks of government and private agencies

Involves offenses that originate in one country, cross one or several national borders (corruption, bribery, sea piracy)

For the purpose of prostitution is a common form of transnational crime