TOPIC 1 Flashcards
What did Garland (2002) propose?
- Government project = The administrative process of criminal justice system. The working of prisons and police and measuring crime
- Lombrosian project = Examining the characteristics of criminals and non- criminals
4 Frame works of defining crime?
- Legalistic approach= Crimes committed
- Social and political = different countries have different crimes committed
- Religion = Religion crimes
- Human rights = Government treating society unfairly
What did Edwin Sutherland (1937) propose?
- The study of crime
- The breaking of the laws
- Society’s reaction to the breaking of the laws
What 4 things are necessary in the legalistic approach?
- Guilty act
- Guilty mind
- Absence of lawful defence
- Having legal capacity
What were Hillyard and Tombs (2004) 4 major criticisms against criminology?
- Perpetuates the myth of crime ‘ as if crime is unproblematic’
- Crime may exclude serious crimes
- No ‘ontological reality’ no universal criteria of ‘what is crime’
- Crimes consists of many petty events
What is crime?
Consequences leading to prosecution and punishment in criminal court.
What is criminalisation?
certain acts, people defined as criminal
Over- criminilisation?
Excess punishment for the crime committed
Under-criminilsation
under punishment for the act committed
What is criminology?
Study of crime. Criminal justice system. Those who commit crime?
What are the pros and cons of the legalistic approach?
PROS: Equal treatment aims to treat everyone equally
CONS: Rigid and inaflexibility (focuses on the law rather than the individuals circumstances
What are the pros and cons of the legalistic approach?
PROS: Equal treatment aims to treat everyone equally
CONS: Rigid and inaflexibility (focuses on the law rather than the individuals circumstances
