Cultural Criminology and Key Benefits for Policies: A Report

This report delves into the subfield of cultural criminology, exploring its focus on the dynamic meanings underlying criminal justice processes and the definition of crime. It emphasizes how culture impacts crime practices and societal relations, examining symbolism and power dynamics to explain crime's causes and effects. The report highlights the role of cultural criminology in understanding behavioral patterns, identifying crime-related traits, and enhancing the justice system. It discusses the challenges faced by cultural criminology in theory and method, emphasizing its importance in effective justice administration. The report references key scholars like Katz and Ferrell, and concludes by summarizing the concept's importance in the context of law and justice.

CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY AND
KEY BENEFITS FOR POLICY

TABLE OF CONTENT
• INTRODUCTION
• WHAT IS CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY
• KEY BENEFITS FOR POLICIES
• CONCLUSION
• REFRENCES

What Is Cultural Criminology
Cultural criminology is that kind of subfield which
involves study of crime that has to be focused through
ways under which dynamic meaning is that to underpin
every process that leads towards criminal justice. Under
this crime and definition of crime is also included
within it.

What Is Cultural Criminology
• Culture criminology is mainly centered over how
culture is being impacting practices mix of those crime
and its relation with society existing in modern times.
Majorly it has been focusing upon symbolism and
power relations in explaining the causes and effects of
crime and deviance.

What Is Cultural Criminology
• These theories are also helpful in understanding of
various kinds of behavioral patterns that has been
existing within society of an individual. This has been
making various kinds of crimes and traits to be
identified relating to basic rules which makes
commitment of crime possible. By taking a cultural
approach cultural criminologists have a better
opportunity to see.

Key benefits for policy
Cultural criminology has to face challenges that has
been occurred in theory and method. Through cultural
criminology challenge that has been occurred during the
time of solving the problem related to crime. It helps in
making administration of justice possible in positive and
effective manner. These theories are also helpful in
enhancing system of justice and makes system of justice
more enhanced with strengthening of laws.

Key benefits for policy
In Katz (1988) and other works, the goal is to find the
overlap between the emotions associated with everyday
life and those associated with crime. As such, one of the
main tenets of cultural criminology is the role
of affected in crime. Jeff Ferrell, cited by many scholars
as a forerunner of the subfield as it is known today,
describes the purpose of cultural criminology as being
to investigate.

CONCLUSION
From the above presentation it is clear that concept of
criminology deals with study of crime in relation to
culture. Also it makes culture and factors within it being
highlighted. Further it cover various kinds of theories
that is helpful in forming of base of a laws and helps in
enhancing of system of justice within a country.

REFRENCES
• Muzzatti, S.L., 2016. Criminalising marginality and
resistance: Marilyn Manson, Columbine and cultural
criminology. In Cultural criminology unleashed (pp.
157-166). Routledge-Cavendish.
• Prieur, A., 2018. Towards a criminology of structurally
conditioned emotions: Combining Bourdieu’s field
theory and cultural criminology. European Journal of
Criminology. 15(3). pp.344-363.