Criminology

Question 1

What is Criminology

Answer 1

The scientific study of crime and criminals

Question 2

Where do laws come from?

Question 3

Two costs of laws

Question 4

LAMPS

Answer 4

L - land use (positive and negative)
A - Adults (marital and parental presence)
M - market for used/illegal goods (pawn shops, hourly rate hotels, second hand furniture stores)
P - place manager (business owners, any long term residents)

Question 5

10 fallacies

Answer 5

cops and courts: the over rating of criminal justice
the dramatic: when murders are glorified and far more dramatized than they actually were
not me: that someone didn’t commit a crime
organized crime: when someone organized their every step of a crime when they really didn’t
innocent youth: saying that someones son could never do that
ingenuity: saying that someone is highly skilled at what they do but they are actually not
agenda fallacy:
juvenile gang:
welfare state: blaming the state of the

Question 6

4 sources of laws

Answer 6

public outcry, social mores, scapegoating, special interest