criminology
thumb|350x350px|Three women in the pillory, China, 1875 Criminology (from Latin , 'accusation', and Ancient Greek , -logia, from λόγος logos, 'word, reason') is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences, which draws primarily upon the research of sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, social workers, biologists, social anthropologists, scholars of law and jurisprudence, as well as the processes that define administration
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Criminology is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behavior that brings together researchers from many fields including sociology, psychology, economics, law, and biology to understand why crimes occur and how societies respond to them. It matters because understanding the causes and patterns of crime helps inform policies and practices aimed at preventing crime and improving justice systems.
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Research
295,824 papers- Positive criminology in practice.ReviewInternational journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2014Ronel N, Segev DDOI: 10.1177/0306624X13491933
- The Practice of Spiritual Criminology: A Non-Doing Companionship for Crime Desistance.ReviewInternational journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2023Amitay G, Ronel NDOI: 10.1177/0306624X211066828
- [A critical review of applied criminology].ReviewArchiv fur Kriminologie · 2016Vollbach A
- Contemporary Issues in Crime, Criminal Justice and Criminology in Greater China: Editors' Introduction.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2021Hebenton B, Lee J, Lu H et al.DOI: 10.1177/0306624X20946264
Article
39 sectionsContents
- History of academic criminology
- History in the United States
- Early schools of thought
- Origins and classical school
- Positivist
- Criminal personality
- Italian
- Sociological positivist
- Differential association (sub-cultural)
- Chicago
- Other schools of thought
- Social structure theories
- Disorganization
- Social ecology
- Strain
- Subcultural
- Control
- Psychoanalytic
- Symbolic interactionism
- Labeling theory
- Traitor theory
- Rational choice theory
- Routine activity theory
- Biosocial theory
- Marxist
- Convict
- Queer
- Cultural
- Relative deprivation
- Rural
- Public
- Ultra-realism
- Types and definitions of crime
- Subtopics
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|350x350px|Three women in the pillory, China, 1875 Criminology (from Latin , 'accusation', and Ancient Greek , -logia, from λόγος logos, 'word, reason') is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences, which draws primarily upon the research of sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, social workers, biologists, social anthropologists, scholars of law and jurisprudence, as well as the processes that define administration of justice and the criminal justice system.
The interests of criminologists include the study of the nature of crime and criminals, origins of criminal law, etiology of crime, social reaction to crime, and the functioning of law enforcement agencies and the penal institutions. It can be broadly said that criminology directs its inquiries along three lines: first, it investigates the nature of criminal law and its administration and conditions under which it develops; second, it analyzes the causation of crime and the personality of criminals; and third, it studies the control of crime and the rehabilitation of offenders. Thus, criminology includes within its scope the activities of legislative bodies, law-enforcement agencies, judicial institutions, correctional institutions and educational, private and public social agencies.