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Etiology of crime- origin. Criminogenesis crime causation
Sociology of law- law
Penology - study of punishment
Theory – set of statement devised to explained an event or phenomenon which is
repeated and widely accepted
It is a theory argue that crime is a product of one factor- unitary or single
Crime is a product of several factors- multiple factor theory
Crime is product of another set of factor- eclectic or mixed
Approaches in criminology
Physical biological mental traits – subjective approach
Sociological, cultural economic- objective approach
Measuring, controlling and understanding crime
School of thought – group of ideas or belief
Classical school- bebe
Cesare bonesana marchese de beccaria
Jeremy bentham
Positivist- auguste comte holy three
Chicago- ecological factors- robert ezra park
Carthographic school- adoplhe quetelet geographical factor use of statistics to
explain crime
Early criminological theories
PROPONENTS:
Giambatista dela Porta -founder of human physiognomy
Acc to him, criminal behavior may be predicted based on facial feature of a
person
Johann Kaspar Lavater –he supported the belief of dela porta
- he believed that a person's character is revealed through his facial characteristics.
PHRENOLOGY
the study that deals with the relationship between the skull and human behavior
Study of the external formation of the skull in relation to the person's personality
and tendencies toward criminal behavior.
Craniology cranioscpy-
Measurement craniometry
Prediction of human behavior based on the alignment of stars.- astrology
Line in palm- palmistry-
Franzjoseph gall- he developed cranioscopy which later
renamed as phrenology.
Thestudy that deals with the relationship between the
skull and human behavior.
Hutchings and mednick- they studied 1, 145 male adoptees with criminal
records and found the criminality of the biological father was a major predictor of
the child's behavior.
DNA –deoxyribonucleic acid
Father of DNA alec jeffrey
Four bases of DNA
ATCG
ADINE
THYMINE
GUANINE
CYTOSINE
What is the most realible means of identification? Fingerprint
Identical twins
Modern perspective on biological determinism-
the newest biological theories, which some
advocates call biosocial theories, focus on broad
range of biological factors including genetic and
environmental.
Nature theory- it argues that intelligence is
largely determined genetically, that ancestry
determines I,Q and that low intelligence as
demonstrated by low I,Q is linked to
criminal behavior.
Custodial- 0-25
Trainable25- 50
Educable-
borderline
Nurture theory- it refers to all the environmental
variables that impact who were are including our
childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social
relationship and our surrounding culture.
COMMITMENT
refers to an individual’s investment of energy and emotion in conventional
pursuits
INVOLVEMENT
refers to the amount of time an individual spends on a conventional
pursuit
BELIEF
- refers to acceptance of the norms of conventional society
Differential identification theory-
Person pursue criminal behavior to the extent that he identifies himself with real
or imaginary person from whose perspective his criminal behavior.
Economic determinism- insisted that society's
economic substructure shapes all other institutions
and relationship.
Karl marx- emphasized the economic basis of societal conflict which gave birth
to the economic substructure determines the nature of all other institution and
social relationship in society.
In his view the emergence of capitalism produces economic inequality in which
the workers is exploited by the capitalist class.
This exploitation creates poverty and also the root of other social problems
Father of communism
Communist manifesto
Capitalist- land owner- bourgeoisie
Workers - proletariat
Lumen or lumpen proletariat
Conflict theory- is interested in understanding how the social and
criminal justice system respond differentially to person suspected of
violating the law.