Good MORNING Criminology fans, I'm here in the home office, excited to get started talking about the #MeasurementOfCrime, who else is feeling the return to work after the long weekend?
Many have argued that this theory was not only flawed, but has had a significant racist impact, much of which the system has not be able to correct even to this day
American criminal law scholar Jerome Hall has developed the theory that a human event, in order to qualify as a crime, must meet the following seven basic requirements
Before any human behavior can qualify as an act, there must be a conscious interaction between mind and body, a physical movement that results from the determination or effort of the actor. #CRJ105#MoraineValley
The Legality Requirement:
If one wants a person to adhere to a standard, the person has to know what that standard is. #CRJ105#MoraineValley
The Harm Requirement:
Every crime has been designated as illegal to prevent something bad, a given harm, from happening #CRJ105#MoraineValley
THINKING CHALLENGE: Can you think of an illegal act that does not result in harm to the actors ... or society?
Each of these defenses simply negates the existence of one (or more) of the elements of the offense charged:
~Insanity defense
~Defense of Infancy
~Defense of mistake of fact
~The legality requirement
~Duress
~Necessity
~Self-defense
~Defense of property
Lawyers and criminologists have searched for a system of grouping the many types of crimes into coherent, rational categories, for ease of understanding, of learning, and of finding them in the law books
Without ordering these measurements in some purposeful way, without a theory, a systematic set of principles that explain how two or more phenomena are related, scientists would be limited in their ability to make predictions from the data they collect #CRJ105#MoraineValley
To test a given theory, researchers might begin with the hypothesis.
Next they would collect facts, observations, and other pertinent information... called data
Depending on what questions they are asking, criminologists collect their data in a variety of ways: through:
~ survey research,
~ experiments,
~ observation,
~ and case studies
Chances are, you heard a white van mentioned at least once when getting the stranger danger talk as a child. It’s a well-worn story that men who kidnap children offer them candy to lure them into white vans
The Hook Man is a classic legend. A couple parks on a lover’s lane and hears a news report over the radio that a man with a hook for a hand has escaped from the local asylum
The Hook Man is a classic urban legend. A couple parks on a lover’s lane and hears a news report over the radio that a man with a hook for a hand has escaped from the local asylum
All police cars, marked and unmarked, have a tag identifying them as law enforcement, such as they have “L” as the final letter of their license plates.
A popular meme claims 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman was murdered by drug dealers after she was pressured to turn informant over a small possession charge.
To estimate the nature and extent of crime in the United States, researchers rely primarily on the Uniform Crime Reports, data compiled by the police; on the National Crime Victimization Survey, which measures crime through reports by victims; and on various self-report surveys
Behind each crime is a criminal or several criminals. Criminals can be differentiated by age, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic level, and other criteria.
Before we get started with Unit 02, I wanted to check in how the course is progressing for you so far. Now that we've got one unit under our belt, how is online learning treating you?
Good afternoon, all. I'm back home, live, to answer any & all of your questions. We will be covering chapter 01, #ChangingBoundariesOfCriminogy this morning.