Meaning

Criminology is a study of crime . It is the study of why crime offenders

commit and many more . It is the entire body of knowledge regarding
crime , punishment in crime ,prevention of crime . Multiple factors
affects the mind of the criminals which leads them to committing crime.
The common reasons behind the crimes are poverty , pressure ,
unemployement , reigion , family condition , drugs etc .criminology
also aims in rehabilitation of the criminals with the society .

Criminology includes the study of all aspects of crime and law

enforcement criminal psychology, the social setting of crime,
prohibition and prevention, investigation and detection, capture and
punishment. Thus, many of the people involved legislators, social
workers, probation officers, judges, etc.could possibly be considered
criminologists, though the word usually refers only to scholars and
researchers.

Criminology is the scientific study of the nonlegal aspects of crime and

delinquency, including its causes, correction, and prevention, from the
viewpoints of such diverse disciplines as anthropology, biology,
psychology and psychiatry, economics, sociology, and statistics.
Criminology developed in the late 18th century, when various
movements, imbued with humanitarianism, questioned the cruelty,
arbitrariness, and inefficiency of the criminal justice and prison
systems. During this period reformers such as Cesare Beccaria in Italy
and Sir Samuel Romilly, John Howard, and Jeremy Bentha in England,
all representing the so-called classical school of criminology, sought
penological and legal reform rather than criminological knowledge.

Importance

The study of criminology is very important to know the reasons behind

crime . the study of criminology helps in preventing crime by trying to
solve the problems which leads people in crime world .criminology also
helps in the rehabilitation of ex-prisoners.

The youth is caught in the middle, they are still part of the old Law but
they live in a world run by the new law. Lawyers are only interested in
the rights of the clients be it the perpetrator himself. They will do
whatever they can to make sure that murderers and rapists and child
abusers are protected from the new law. They will only advocate
acknowledging traditional law when they think it will work better for
their clients, the perpetrators. But they dont know how the old Law
worked. They never worry about the victims who have had their basic
human rights ignored and trampled on by members of their own
communities, their own families. Our problem is that on one hand, we
want to keep our culture. We want to respect our ancestors and their
Law but we also want to be equal citizens and we want human rights.
We cant do that without changing our Law.