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    (Greenhaven‚ 1989). Liquor licensing Act Chapter 121 Laws of Kenya (revised 1986) Forer‚ Lois. Criminals and Victims (Norton‚ 1984). Alcoholic Drinks Control Act (NACADA ‚2010 ) Wilson‚ Colin. A Criminal History of Mankind (Carroll & Graf‚ 1990). Lombroso‚ C. (1968).  Crime: Its Causes and Remedies. Montclair. Fleisher‚ S. (1995) Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals.University of Wisconsin Press. Renzetti‚ C. (2001). Women‚ Crime‚ and Criminal Justice‚Los Angeles: Roxbury.

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    factors when we should be looking into all of them. Very early criminologists such as Beccaria and Bentham tried to explain crime within the classical school of criminology‚ focusing on the individuals ’ need for ’pain ’ or ’pleasure ’ and seeing behaviour as rational and self-interested in the pursuit of this‚ in other words‚ an individual would commit a crime because he or she wanted to. Another theory by Lombroso with regards to the problem of crime was within a biological context‚ and suggests

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    This previous week we watched a film in class called The Execution of Clifford Boggess. In the beginning I believe Clifford Boggess to be a regular individual. Actually Clifford Bogess graduated with honors‚ was also a talented piano player who played at weddings‚ and he also went to church faithfully. He was a normal individual that you wouldn’t even expect to commit crimes like these. On June 18th‚ 1988 a man by the name of Clifford Holt Boggess was born. Clifford Boggess was a lower class Caucasian

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    What Is Criminolgy

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    What is It? Learn About the Study of Crime‚ Its Causes and Its Consequences sociology criminal justice system criminology careers Criminology is most often associated with the study of the law enforcement and criminal justice system. A person looking for a career in criminal justice will very likely first seek to earn a criminology degree. While criminal justice and criminology are certainly related fields‚ they are by no means interchangeable‚ as so many people tend to believe

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    This chapter was an overall background of to the rest of the book and it gave you just a quick peek into what is criminology‚ how did it become‚ what exactly do criminologists do and why they do it. There were so many different aspects into the history or criminologists and crime that you could easily get lost. The authors wanted to make sure you were able to tie the history of how theories came about to some of the actual things we face in today’s crimes. As you know history is from the start of

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    Class Notes for CJ 352_Spring 2011 History Instructor: Marcos L. Misis (ABD) . 1 HISTORY OF CORRECTIONS IN AMERICA Early History of Corrections • Codified punishment for offenders was developed in the early ages of human history. • One of the earliest known written codes that specified different types of offenses and punishments was the Code of Hammurabi in 1750 B.C. The Code of Hammurabi was divided into sections to cover different types of offenses and contained descriptions

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    Early & Middle Ages Sept 19/13 After the collapse of the roman empire The fall of western rome (400-500) & Rise of christianity (600-1400) -following a series of dictatorships -withdrawal of community involvement in polis -muslim and christianity emerge as threats to power christianity emerged as a threat to the polis introduced a belief system that said god is more important than the state Islam and Christianity a threat? Power greater than the polis - a spiritual monopoly

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    founded in the late 19th century by Italian academic who called Cesare Lombroso. He believes that the positivist scientific method could be applied to the study of crime so as to find out its causes and prevent it. His particular approach was described as criminal anthropology. He compared the known offenders and a control group of soldiers by the post-mortem measurement and examination. After studying the resulting‚ Lombroso think that there a correlation between certain physical features‚ such

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    CRM 1301: History of Criminological Thought Thomas hobbes Thomas Hobbes: The State of nature and the Basis of Society * Thomas Hobbes ‘‘Leviathan’’ or The Matter‚ Form and Power of a Common-Wealth‚ Ecclesiastical and civil (1651) Context of Hobbes study: * Conflict between monarch and parliament * Catholicism/Protestantism * War Hobbes believed that the civil peace was a very fragile thing‚ and that chaos could and did break through the veneer of civilization. Hobbes wanted

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    The thought of why crime exists in our society seems to cross an individual’s mind at some point in their lives. Crimes transpire all over the world on a daily basis. But‚ the key reason why people are so fascinated with crime is the deduction behind why crime happens. Criminological theories are a key role in helping to outline the present criminal justice policies. For instance‚ these theories‚ attempt to describe why people risk attempting criminal acts and through doing that‚ policy creators

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