CCJ113 Criminology and Criminal Justice | Questions

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INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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First of all, criminology not only deals with solving crimes. The sphere of criminology is
vast. Apart from the strategies of solving crimes, it deals with some other things as well, which
includes types of crime, reasons behind a crime, identifying the behaviour of the criminal,
history of a wrongdoer, his/her psychological stability, age, and most importantly the social and
governmental responses to crime (White, Haines & Asquith, 2017).
The term criminology is derived from a Latin term which means ‘allegation’. On the
other hand, the transcribed Greek logia denote it as ‘the study of’. Thus, the literal meaning of
the term criminology is ‘the study of crime’. The scientific education on crime is considered to
be as Criminology, which includes law enforcement and preventive strategies. The empirical
study of social conduct is a sub-group of sociology which is also included in criminology.
Several fields of education are used and included in the study of criminology, such as biology,
economics, anthropology, psychiatry, statistics, and psychology. The study of criminology itself
has various sub-groups which includes:
 Feminist criminology: The education on women and crime;
 Penology: The education on jail and jail system;
 Criminalistics: The education on crime discovery; and
 Bio-criminology: The education of biology based on the conduct of criminal.
The primary aim of criminology is, of course, to identify the root reasons for crime and to
establish efficient and ethical ways to prevent it by improving the criminal justice system. These
aims are responsible for the creation of several schools, such as positivist school, classical
school, and Chicago school (Davis & Dossetor, 2017). Moreover, over the last 250 years, the