Summary: Criminology A Contemporary Introduction | 9781529601039 | Tony Murphy

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• 1 Introduction

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• Moral and social context of crime

  Many damaging behaviours are not criminalised while some groups in society are disadvantaged by the needless criminalisation of certain behaviours

• Socially constructed nature of crime

  What is viewed as crime is a product of the dynamics of a given society at a given point in time

• White collar crime

  Offending in respactable status-based professions

• Status offences/crimes

  Acts that are prohibited only for certain groups or in the context of certain conditions

• 2 Theory

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• Aetiological theories of crime

  Why people engage with crime, the nature of offending. Causes of crime

• Individual positivism/pathologies

  Internal forces of biology or psychology can influence actions

• Sociological positivism/pathologies

  External forces of social conditions and culture can influence actions

• Block 2: individual pathologies

  Offending is viewed as a consequence in some way of biological or psychological abnormalities of the offender. Focus on rehabilitation

• Block 3: social pathologies

  Offending as an outcome of pathology in the context of processes outside an individual: pathologies of a community, culture of the social structures of a society. Focus on broader influences

• Broad issues and concerns of criminology

  Criminology is centered on a range of key topics and issues.