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This document focuses on how crime can be interpreted by different people and how certain aspects of society influence the law.

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Intro to criminology notes-
Key areas of enquiry-

How do we define crime?

What are the causes?

What do we do with those who commit crime?
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History List for criminology-
• 1750/60s -The Classical School and Beccaria

• Fielding’s London policing experiments

• 1780s - Bentham’s panopticon

• 1820s - Collection of criminal statistics

• 1870s - The Italian or Positivist School and Lombroso

• 1870/00s- Heredity and criminal families

• 1910s - Intelligence theories Twin research, somatotypes and endocrinology

• Durkheim and functionalist criminology

• Early African American socio-criminology

• 1920s - Psychoanalytic theories

• 1920/30s - Early Chicago School Zonal theory, life story research

• 1930s -Anomie theory

• 1930/40s-Differential association

• 1960s -Neo-Chicago School

• 1960/70s- Subcultural theory, labelling theory, Control theory, Marxist/conflict
Criminologies

• 1970s - Moral panic theory,
• New criminology
• Critical criminology
• Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
• The political economy of crime
• The justice model
• Administrative/actuarial criminology

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Module: Criminology (CRIM1003)

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