Crime and Criminology

Description

Crime is the central focus of criminology and a major topic of the sociology of deviance, but there is no consensus on how to define the term. Many sociologists look at crime as a social construction, or a label, and look at crime being created through the passing of laws and the application of those laws. A model of the relationship between crime and the resources employed in its detection and punishment by the criminal justice system. Criminology is the study of crime, criminal behaviour, and the criminal justice system. While this captures the essence of the discipline, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes criminal behaviour and how it differs from other behaviours widely held to be socially deviant. This debate has produced five types of definitions of criminality: natural law explanations, moralistic explanations, labeling explanations, social harm explanations, and legalistic explanations. Criminology basically is specified into three further branches. These are Sociology which deals with the social aspect of the crimes, criminal aetiology which deals with the causation of crimes and penology which deals with the mechanism of prevention of crimes. The objective of criminology is to provide a codified, organised and structural subject that will try to find the cause of crimes and will ultimately provide ways and remedies on how the crimes can be reduced or eradicated. This book provides deep insight into various dimensions of issues relating to the subject.