14/05/2015
today 15/05/15 updated second lecture on criminology .
Here is the second part of what is criminology and further more….
Second lecture
A prominent inscription on a prominent wall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) reads, in part, as follows:“Many of the most important discoveries of the future will come
from those wise enough to explore the unknown territories between different disciplines.” We
believe that the time has come to present approaches that do this more fully in an introductory
textbook. This text is still primarily sociological in orientation because sociologists have conducted
the vast majority of theorizing and research in criminology. It is also primarily sociological
in orientation because no matter what insights other sciences may provide criminologists,
criminal behavior always takes place in a social context, and the perspective from which most
criminologists work is sociological.
Now we are discussing about the word CRIME because it is rather different word from the meaning of criminology
What is crime
What sort of person comes to mind when you hear the word criminal? The term can be
applied to many types of behavior, some of which nearly all of us have been guilty of at some
time in our lives. However, very few people ever commit murder, robbery, or major theft.
Those who do, especially those who do so repeatedly, are what most people think of as “real
criminals.” Even so, it is important to recognize that the dividing line between “real criminals”
and most of the rest of us is fuzzy and difficult to specify with precision. Nearly all of us can
think of acts that we feel ought to be criminal but are not, or acts that should not be criminal
but are. As you can imagine, the roster of possible wrongs that someone or another considers
crimes is enormous, with only a select few being defined as criminal by the law. Furthermore,
ask yourself how many crimes would people have to commit before they are considered real
criminals—three, four, or maybe five? Or would the answer depend on how serious each
crime was? The main purpose of exploring topics such as these is to acquaint you with how
criminologists conceptualize their discipline and what they include and exclude from study.
Despite the difficulties attending the definition of crime, we need one to proceed. Perhaps
the most often quoted definition comes from Paul Tappan, who defined crime as “an intentional
act in violation of the criminal law committed without defense or excuse, and penalized
by the state.” Thus, a crime is an act in violation of a criminal law for which a punishment
is prescribed; the person committing it must have intended to do so and must have done so
without legally acceptable defense or justification.
If you feel it is too much to know about the word so must know that there is nothing but human being is everything.
A fundamental point on which all criminologists agree is that crime is a legal concept
defined by the political state and its subdivisions. The fact that crime is a legal rather than a
scientific concept has implications for the scientific study of crime. Hypothetically, a society
could eradicate crime tomorrow simply by rescinding all of its criminal statutes. Of course,
this would not eliminate the behavior specified by the laws; in fact, the behavior would doubtless
increase since the behavior could no longer be officially punished. While it is absurd to
think that any society would try to solve its crime problem by eliminating its criminal statutes,
legislative bodies are continually revising, adding to, and deleting from their criminal statutes.
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