Criminology

Cultural criminology is a response to cultural and social trends and contextualises crime within lived experiences of offenders, victims and society. The geographical focus of cultural criminology is within western societies, mainly the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as this is where many of its theorists originate, such as Presdee, Ferrell and Young. Cultural criminologists see the act of transgression to contain emotions and attractions, where crime is a reaction against the…

While reading chapter eleven of Introduction to Criminology, one of the theories that I’ve read was the Feminist Criminology. Feminist criminology was emerged during the 1970s which was evolved by liberal feminists with the realization that gender was ignored from criminology theory. It was hard to understand why it was ignored seeing as gender played a big part of criminal behavior. This led to feminists realizing the limitation of criminological perspective, which didn’t examine the issue of…

In the field of criminology law, an important aspect involves the validation and actualization of the actual causes of crime. The fact that criminal activities continue to persist our society means that understanding the real cause of crimes will remain to be complex (Bursik, 2008). However, various law criminologists have postulated various theories that attempt to explain the different causes of crime in our society. The theoretical understanding of the causes of crime helps in the…

Positivist criminology represents the first systematic and scientific study of crime (Bradley & Walters, 2011), and modern positivist criminology began with the work of Cesare Lombroso and the Italian school (Muncie, 2006). Positivist criminology argued that crime was a non-rational behaviour and sought scientific proof that crime was caused by features within the individual (Moyer, 2001). The explanation for criminality was seen as a non-social defect of individuals (Maguire, Morgan & Reiner,…

Criminology is the social-scientific academic study of crime and criminals. It focuses immensely on how and why crime happens and how to prevent it. Many criminologists queried and argued about when criminology first became its own independent discipline. Hayward & Morrison (2009), cited in Hale et al (2009), claimed that theoretical criminology has been an academic discipline for over two centuries. On the contrary, Garland (2002), cited in Newburn (2007) stated that the “new science of…

The idea of crime and punishment was a key part of the formative lessons learned from my parents. Crime touched my life early on and so rather than going on facts, I often looked at it through emotions. Therefore, criminology was definitively black and white without any gray areas. Erroneously, I often thought that once a person committed a crime they should be locked away and forgotten. While my father was adamantly not religious, my religious upbringing and biblical instruction came from my…

Criminology is a study of crime, opportunity, prevention and control, which is influenced to determine motivation or an act criminal in nature. It takes in the essence of a variety of studies related to biology, psychology, psychiatry, statistics, and economics. The philosophy of criminology has been an influence since ancient times and has slowly developed into a professional and more advanced line of criminalistics studies. Which brings us to the philosophical approached of classical…

understandings I had about crime and see how they have changed. Upon arriving at De Montfort University to study Criminology and Criminal Justice, I had average knowledge about crime and punishment i.e. insight into biological and psychological perspectives of crime having studied A-level Law and Psychology beforehand. However I did expect to delve so deep into the history and other aspects of Criminology during this first semester. During A-level Law I have read many case studies of murder,…

I have an ongoing passion for criminology and psychology within the classroom, I enjoy watching crime programmes and one of my favourites is criminal minds, I find this very interesting and educational. I have always been interested in criminology, I love learning how different techniques and methods are used for solving crimes this is something I intend to further my knowledge in, at university. Studying criminology will develop my understanding of the consequences of a crime and its effect on…

Women have never been as conspicuous as their male partners in criminology, to such an extent, they can be said to have been overlooked for a long time and it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that women who carried out law violations were truly included in criminological talk. The approach of the women 's activist developments all through this time starting with the suffragettes to the current Fawcett commission built in 2003, has seen the acknowledgment of women ' rights and the…