×Criminology is the
scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon. It covers the
nature, extent, causes, and consequences of crime, as well as the
processes of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting to the breaking of laws. Criminology also deals with the
legal, psychiatric, biological, pedological, and sociological aspects of criminality. The term criminology was coined by Raffaele Garofalo, an Italian law professor, in 1885.,The term was coined in 1885 by Raffaele Garofalo, an Italian law professor. Classic Definition – According to Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey:
Criminology is a body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its
scope the processes of making laws, of breaking of laws, and of reaction toward the breaking of laws.According to Coleman and Norris (2000),
criminology is the analysis of the nature of crime, the offenders of crime, the causes of crime, the formulation of criminal laws and law enforcement, and the ways that crime can be controlled.Criminology is the scientific study of: the extent and nature of
crime: How much crime is there in our society? What crime types are there? the causes of crime: Why do offenders commit crime? the consequences of crime: This includes the impact of crime on victims and on societyEdwin Sutherland Criminology is the
body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the processes of making laws, breaking laws and reacting towards the breaking of law.
Broadly speaking, criminology deals with the legal psychiatric aspect or medico-psychological, biological, pedological, or sociological aspect of criminality and the factors related therewith, and thus, it seeks to study the phenomenon of criminality in its entirety, i.e., criminology in the broadest sense covers the whole of criminal science, which includes sentencing, punishment, laws, procedure, rehabilitation, crime...
