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FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINOLOGY

IMPORTANT TERMS IN THE STUDY OF CRIMINOLOGY

CRIMINOGENIC PROCES
-explain human behavior and experiences
-determine the nature of a person’s personality
-factors or experiences in connection thereto infringe

CRIMINAL PSYCHODYNAMICS
-study of mental processes of criminals in action
-study of genesis, development, and motivation of human behavior that conflicts with
accepted norms and standards of society

CULTURAL CONFLICT
-a clash between societies
-because of;
-contrary beliefs
-variance in their respective customs, language, institutions,habits, learning and traditions

DEMENTIA PRAECOX
-Premature dementia
-Precious madness
-schizophrenia
-mental disorder that begins at, or shortly after puberty and usually leads to the general
failure of the mental faculties, with corresponding physiological impairment.

DEMENTIA PRAECOX SYMPTOMS

Positive symptoms
-present in someone schizophrenia that someone without schizophrenia would not
experience
-patient lost touch in reality

Negative symptoms
-person is experiencing an absence or reduction of certain traits
-absence of normal characteristics

DELUSION
false belief about self-caused by morbidity present in paranoia and dementia PRAECOX
Paranoid disorder
False beliefs that conflict with reality
EPISODIC CRIMINAL
-non-criminal person who commits a crime when under extreme emotional stress
EROTOMANIA
-a morbid propensity to live or make love
excessive sexual desire
HEREDITARY
have been believed to share about equally in determining disposition that is whether a
person is cheerful or gloomy
Capable of passing naturally from parent to offspring through GENES
HALLUCINATIONS
an individual with a strongly self-centered pattern of emotion fantasy and thoughts
KLEPTOMANIA
an uncomfortable morbid propensity to steal or pathological stealing
MASOCHISM
a condition of sexual perversion in which a person derives pleasure from being dominated
SADISM
derivation of sexual gratification from the infliction of physical pain or humiliation on
another person
MELANCHOLIA
a mental disorder characterized by excessive brooding and depression of spirits
MEGALOMANIA
mental disorder in subject thinks himself great
NECROPHILISM
The morbid craving usually of an erotic nature of dead bodies
ANTHROPOLOGY
-Science devoted to the study of mankind and its development in relation to its physical
mental and cultural history
AUTOPHOBIA
A fera of one’s self or being alone
BIOMETRY
A measuring or calculating of the probable duration of human life
Attempt to correlate the frequency of crime between parents and children
BIOSOCIAL BEHAVIOR
A person’s biological heritage plus his environment and social heritage influence his social
activity
LOGOMACY
A statement that would have no crime if we had no criminal kaw and that we could
eliminate all crime merely by abolishing all criminal laws
IMPORTANT EVENTS AND PLACES
BERLIN- a country where the last burning at stane was made until 1786
AUSTRALIA
A place where after Americans gained their independence in 1786 the prisoners in England
were transferred until 1867
ANCIENT ROME
-nation who pioneered banishments as a form of punishment
MIDDLE OF THE 16th CENTURY
-period when the first house of corrections appeared in England at the petition of BISHOP
RIDLEY OF LONDON
HAMMURABI’S CODE
-code after a name of the person who first adopted the principal and eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth
195 IF A SON STRIKE HIS FATHER, HIS HAND SHALL BE HEWN OFF
197 if he breaks another man’s bone his bone shall be broken
202 if anyone strikes the body of a man higher in rank then he shall receive sixty blows with
an ox ship
218 physical make a large incision with the operating knife and kill him or open a tumor with
the operating knife and cut out the eye his hand shall be off
219 if a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freedman and kill him he shall
replace the slave with another slave
282 if a slave say to his master you are not my master if they convict him his master shall
cut off his ear

ELMIRA REFORMATORY
considered as the forerunner of modern penology located in Elmira new york in 1876
Features a training school type of institutional program social casework and extensive use
of parole
AUBURN PRISON SYSTEM
Confinement of the prisoners in single cells at night snd congregate work in shops during
the day
1870-1880
The golden age of penology
1934
League of Nations adopted the standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoner
1839
Demetz of France established an agricultural colony for delinquent

CRIMINOLOGY- PUTANGINA ALAM NIYO NA YAN

THIS SCIENTIFIC STUDY IS CONFINED ON THE THREE BASIC LINES
Application of criminal laws and their administration
Analysis of crime causation and criminal behavior
The prevention and control of crimes and rehabilitation of offenders
CRIMINOLOGY ULIT PUTA ALAM NIYO NA YAN

PHENOMENON
a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
NATURE OF CRIMINOLOGY
APPLIED SCIENCE
-further understand crime causation, anthropology psychology sociology and other natural
sciences may be applied
-crime detection snd investigation
-forensic chemistry and legal medicine
-polygraph and questioned document examination
-fingerprint, identification ballistics
-firearm examination
-forensic photography
SOCIAL SCIENCE
-considered as a part of social science to the extent understanding the nature and
application of existing law
IT IS DYNAMIC
-study of crime changes as to pace and social conditions
-parallel with the development of other sciences which have been applied to it
NATIONALISTIC
-study of crimes should be correlated with the existing laws within the territory
-committed a crime reliant on the existing criminal laws
-causes of crimes must be determined from its social need, stand, or norms