Criminology notes scribd

SUBJECTIVE APPROACHES - deals mainly on the biological explanation of crimes, focused on the forms of abnormalities that exist in the individual criminal before,during and after the commission of the crime (Tradio, 1999)

Included under thisapproach are: 1

Anthropological Approach – the study on the physical characteristics of an

crime and criminals as a social phenomenon, and the effort of society to prevent andrepress them

In its narrower sense, criminology is defined as the scientific study of crimes andcriminals

This scientific study is extended on three basic areas:a

Investigation of the nature of criminal law and its administrationb

pioneered Cartography and the Carthographical School of Criminology thatplaced emphasis on social statistics

He discovered, basing on his research, thatcrimes against persons increased during summer and crimes against propertytends to increase during winter

HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF THE THEORIES