Introduction to Criminology important pointers:

Edwin Sutherland - Father of American Criminology (DAT, White Collar Crimes)

Donald Cressey – co-author / assistant
Cesare Lombroso – Book: “The Criminal Man”; Father of Modern and Empirical Criminology / italian
Jeremy Bentham – utilitarianism; felicific calculus; panopticon prison
Psychiatry – human mind or mental disease
Psychology – human behavior
Anthropology – physical constitution of man
Ecology – spatial distribution
Epidemiology – environment
Demography – population
Free Will – autonomy, self-rule, volition
Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species – Theory of Evolution of Man
Cessare Becarria – (Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria – Conesana); Essay On Crimes and Punishment or Dei
Delittie e Delle Pene
Raffaele Garofalo – coined the Italian tern “criminologia”
Lombroso – atavistic stigmata
Mens rea – guilty mind
Acivs reus – guilty act
Victimology is the scientific study of victimization, including the relationships between victims and
offenders, the interactions between victims and the criminal justice system – that is, the
police and courts and corrections officials – and the groups and institutions, such as the media, business,
and social movements.
Victimless crimes – also known as “public order crimes”
Physique Theory – asthentic, athletic, pykhic, dysplastic) vs. Somatotype Theory (endo-, meso-, ecto-)
Endomorph – fat; Mesomorph – muscular, Ectomorph – thin