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Class Name,Instructor Name

Date, Semester

Criminology 2011

Chapter 1

CRIMINOLOGY AND THE

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

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Understand the relationship between crime, deviance, and criminal law.

Understand how consensus and conflict perspectives contribute to different definitions of crime and our understanding of criminal law.

Be able to provide an overview of criminal law, including the goals of criminal law, legal distinctions in types of crimes, the meaning of criminal

intent, and legal defenses to criminal liability.

Be familiar with the various types of research methods in criminology

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

1.1

1.2 Be able to trace the rise of sociological criminology.

Be familiar with the sociological perspective and understand the mutual relevance of sociology and criminology.

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Be familiar with the sociological perspective and understand the mutual relevance of sociology and criminology.

Learning ObjectivesAfter this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes

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VictimsCriminal

s

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Crime is a Social

Phenomenon

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Be able to trace the rise of sociological criminology.

Learning ObjectivesAfter this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes

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Robert K. Merton

Edwin Sutherland

W.E.B. DuBois

Emile Durkeim

Adolphe Quetelet

The Rise of Sociological Criminology

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Understand the relationship between crime, deviance, and criminal law.

Learning ObjectivesAfter this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes

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Crime Deviance Delinquency

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Criminal Deviant

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Understand how consensus and conflict perspectives contribute to different definitions of crime and our understanding of criminal law.

Learning ObjectivesAfter this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes

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Consensus Perspective

Conflict Perspective

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Be able to provide an overview of criminal law, including the goals of criminal law, legal distinctions in types of crimes, the meaning of criminal intent, and legal defenses to criminal liability.

Learning ObjectivesAfter this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes

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Prevent and Control

Crime

Articulate Society’s

Moral Values

Protect Rights and Freedoms

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Mala in Se Mala Prohibita

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Felony

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Misdemeanor

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Commission Omission

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Purposeful

Knowing

RecklessCriminal

Negligence

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Actus Reus Mens Rea Concurrence

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Mens Rea ≠ Motive

Purposeful/Knowing

Reckless/Negligent

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Accident or Mistake

Entrapment Insanity

Ignorance Duress Self-Defense

Legal Defenses to Criminal Liability

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Be familiar with the various types of research methods in criminology.

Learning ObjectivesAfter this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes

1.6

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1.6

Qualitative Quantitative

vs.

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Strategies of Criminological Research

SurveysObserving

and Intensive Interviewing

Experiments

Research Using Existing Data

Comparative and Historical Research

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1.4

1.5

1.6

Understand the relationship between crime, deviance, and criminal law.

Understand how consensus and conflict perspectives contribute to different definitions of crime and our

understanding of criminal law.

Be able to provide an overview of criminal law, including the goals of criminal law, legal distinctions in types of crimes, the

meaning of criminal intent, and legal defenses to criminal liability.

Be familiar with the various types of research methods in criminology

CHAPTER SUMMARY

1.1

1.2 Be able to trace the rise of sociological criminology.

Be familiar with the sociological perspective and understand the mutual relevance of sociology and

criminology.

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