This book is called Introduction to Criminology: Theories, Methods, and Criminal Behavior by Frank E. Hagan. This book was published by SAGE Publications, Inc 2011. This book is geared towards the student who wants to study criminology.
For further study and activities on this book, you can reference here. There are 15 chapters in this book that we will explore the different type of crimes that are common in a society. The excitement in this journey will be the connection applied to implore theory, method and criminal behavior! I hope you follow along.
This book is intended for the introductory criminology class typically offered in the sophomore or junior year.
The author of this book thanked his late criminology professor and publishing company. He also thanked everyone that has helped him create multiple editions of this book and dedicated this book to his granddaughter.
Crime and Criminal Law
According to a purist legal view, violation of criminal law is considered committing a crime. A crime has to be defined under criminal law.
A crime is committed against the victim and the state it occurred in the U.S.A.
Under criminal law your offense must be specific; the crime and the punishment. The law should be uniformly applied no matter your social status.
This may not be the case in reality but it is written and defined as such.
Criminal Law has very specific criteria: “ Crime is an intentional act or omission in violation of criminal law (statutory and case law), committed without defense of justification, and sanctioned by the state as a felony or misdemeanor”..
In the U.S in order for an act to be considered a crime under criminal law it must be prohibited by law and have a legally prescribed punishments attached to it. The crime must have taken place before the law was enacted. Mens rea and the crime must have been performed intentionally. The act must have caused harm; directly or indirectly.
Criminologists must study the deviants –the criminals –as well as the social structural contexts that define them.
What is crime? If a society has formally sanctioned punishments for behavior, acts etc… Let’s consider the behavior, acts etc… a crime.
Drug abuse, sex offenses, fraud offenses, disturbing the peace, drunkenness, driving under the influence, liquor law offenses, gambling, kidnapping, vandalism, public order offenses are all common crimes in the United States.
A sociological view of crime does not restrict its concept of criminality to those convicted of crime in a legal sense.
All social statuses have crime involved within them. If an act cause harm in some way it need to be identified, checked and defined. The world is always evolving and the criminal justice system sometimes lag behind.
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Work Cited
Hagan, Frank E.
Introduction to criminology: Theories, methods, and criminal behavior/Frank E. Hagan. –7th ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4129-7971-9 (pbk.)
1. Criminology. 2. Criminology –United States. I. Title.
HV6025. H26 2011
364 –dc22
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