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Criminology uses the scientific method to study crime and criminal behavior. Key areas of interest include the development of criminal law, causes of law violations, methods of social control, and statistics on crime rates. While some acts violate social norms and laws, not all deviant behaviors are criminal and some criminal acts are not widely seen as deviant. Criminologists examine how certain behaviors become legally defined as crimes and study the impact of laws on human behavior from sociological perspectives.

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Criminology uses the scientific method to study crime and criminal behavior. Key areas of interest include the development of criminal law, causes of law violations, methods of social control, and statistics on crime rates. While some acts violate social norms and laws, not all deviant behaviors are criminal and some criminal acts are not widely seen as deviant. Criminologists examine how certain behaviors become legally defined as crimes and study the impact of laws on human behavior from sociological perspectives.

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CRIMINOLOGY

 Criminology uses the scientific method to

pose research questions (hypotheses),


gather data, create theories, and test their
validity.
 Example – Hirschi (attachment to delinquent

peers and delinquency)


Most important areas of interest for
criminologists?
 The development of criminal law and its use
to define crime
 The cause of law violations
 The methods used to control criminal
behavior
 The extent of crime
Crime & Deviance

Deviance is behavior departing from social norms


A Crime is conduct violating law & subject to
punishment
 Not all criminal acts are deviant (ex. Prohibition)
 Not all deviant acts are criminal
 Each changes over time & place
Crime & Deviance –
Sociology of Law
 Criminologists are concerned with how
deviant acts become crimes and vice versa
 When should crimes be decriminalized?
 When should deviant behavior become
outlawed?
Crime Sociology
Statistics of Law

Theory Criminal
Construction Behavior Systems

Penology Victimology

Criminology
Crime & Deviance –
Sociology of Law
 Criminologists also concerned with the
impact of the law on human behavior
The Street Criminal: a Profile

 Age-persons between the ages of 15 and 24


 14% of population

 39% of arrests for violent crime

 46.8% of property crimes

 Gender
 70.1% of property crimes and 82.6% of all violent crimes are

committed by males
 Social class
 Violent crimes committed by a few in poor neighborhoods

 White collar and corporate crime committed by more affluent

 Race and ethnicity


 69.7% of arrests involve white people

 People of color are over criminalized


Deviance and Social Diversity
 Hate crimes
 A criminal act against a person or person’s property by an
offender motivated by racial or other bias
 Gender
 The world applies more stringent normative controls to
women
 Strain due to reality of gender-based inequality
 Judge the behavior of women and men differently
 Why do women commit fewer crimes than men
Deviance and Inequality

Social-conflict analysis
 Deviance and power
 Norms or laws reflect interests of rich and powerful
 Powerful have resources to resist deviant labels
 Belief that norms and laws are natural and good masks political
character
Emile Durkheim:

Functions of deviance: structural-functional analysis

 Affirms cultural values and norms


 Clarifies moral boundaries
 Promotes social unity
 Encourages social change

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