Criminology

There are multiple branches of overlapping theories of Criminology. Focusing on what Conflict Criminology, Radical Criminology, Peacemaking Criminology, and Postmodern Criminology outline as their assumptions of crime causation may better help social scientists understand individuals’ actions and ultimately assist in preventing crime. Conflict Criminology or theory assumes that the conflicting of interest groups is what society is based on (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). This is because in many cases,…

book Unwrapping Criminology, by John Krimmel, the history and development of crime, criminal justice, and criminology in the United States is explored. The book goes through the different eras of crime, and discusses all sorts of ideologies shared by criminologists throughout history. The book is filled with background information which gives the reader context for the plethora of crimes committed in the past, and for all the different opinions that theorists have had about criminology. The book…

INTRODUCTION If someone asked me, to sum up in one sentence the primary lesson learned from my work as both a social worker and a paramedic assigned to socioeconomically depressed areas of New York City; I’d say: what marks you, scars you, and then defines you. The neighborhoods my partner and I worked were ravished by drugs, crime, violence, and indifference. The residents of these areas weren’t on anyone’s political radar, and there were no neighbors of means to complain. Arrest rates in this…

Over time criminologists and theorists have attempted to answer the infamous question about how individuals, more specifically adolescents are introduced to crime? Are they born criminal or do they learn their criminal ways? Criminology tells us that the classical school describes crime as a product of rationality and free will, while the positivist school states that criminals are born criminals. In the following we will attempt to answer this question by reviewing theories that were…

As anticipated the Criminology and Criminal Justice course has been an engaging and appealing course. My prior assumptions and understanding of crime were generally simplistic. Prior to the course I felt criminal behavior was a free will of an individual which is based around calculations. Throughout this essay I will present my views in regards to criminal behavior, Crime, punishment and the reliability of theoretical explanations of crime. Since the first semester I have learnt how my prior…

Criminology is the study of crimes and how they impact society. Criminological theories help to do just that. These theories try to explain why people commit crimes and what punishments should be delivered in order to prevent future crimes. Over the years many theories have been created in reflection of the changing beliefs of why crimes occur. These theories include deterrence theory and labeling theory. These theories completely contradict one another. Labeling theory accurately describes the…

According to chapter two the theory of deviancy has evolved because of many different ideas. For instance, orthodox criminology played a role in the new deviancy theory by trying to draw the line between 'normal' and 'deviant'. This sort of criminology defined 'normal' as conforming to culture where as 'deviance' was lacking the culture. Therefore, failure of society to train culture plays a huge role in who is included and who is left out which leads to the labeling theory. The labeling theory…

Feminist criminology has been around since the late 1960's and started out centered on speculations brought upon traditional theories of crime. Most traditional theories of crime didn't necessarily ignore women in the criminal justice system yet they generalized crime and what causes a person to turn to crime so that women who commit crimes are overlooked by the generalization. Not only are the numbers skewed when you look at gender in criminal justice offenders but there is also a certain bias…

Defining crimes across countries is important for the field of cross-national criminology because it allows criminologist to properly evaluate and measure specific crimes equally amongst different countries. However, this is one of the problems with cross-national studies of crime which is its inconsistency in the definition of crimes across nations. One of the remedies for these problems is researchers can focus largely on the crime of homicide because it’s the least definition that varies.…

Critical appraisal of problem orientated criminology This assignment will discuss primary police approaches to detecting and preventing crime. Problem orientated policing concentrates on police management structure on theoretical spotting of crime whereas SARA focuses on practical situational crime prevention. It is within the positivist tradition as it focuses on quantitative data collection and analysis. SARA is a method used by the police, proposed by Eck and Spelman (1987) comprises of…