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2. Critical criminology - Wikipedia

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   Critical criminologists assert that how crime is defined is socially and historically contingent, that is, what constitutes a crime varies in different social situations and different periods of history. The conclusion that critical criminological theorists draw from this is that crime is socially constructed by the state and those in power. [8]

3. Crime and Punishment - Wikipedia

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   Text and Analysis at Bibliomania; Text about Crime and Punishment by Lev Oborin (in Russian) Online text. Crime and Punishment at Standard Ebooks; Crime and Punishment at Project Gutenberg; Crime and Punishment public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Full text (in Russian) Lit2Go audiobook version of the Constance Garnett translation.

4. Rational choice theory (criminology) - Wikipedia

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   Rational choice modeling has a long history in criminology.This method was designed by Cornish and Clarke to assist in thinking about situational crime prevention. [1] In this context, the belief that crime generally reflects rational decision-making by potential criminals is sometimes called the rational choice theory of crime.

5. On Crimes and Punishments - Wikipedia

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   Suicide is a crime which seems not to admit of punishment, properly speaking; for it cannot be inflicted but on the innocent, or upon an insensible dead body. In the first case, it is unjust and tyrannical, for political liberty supposes all punishments entirely personal; in the second, it has the same effect, by way of example, as the ...

6. Penology - Wikipedia

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   The term penology comes from "penal", Latin poena, "punishment" and the Greek suffix -logia, "study of". Penology is concerned with the effectiveness of those social processes devised and adopted for the prevention of crime, via the repression or inhibition of criminal intent via the fear of punishment. The study of penology therefore deals ...

7. Classical school (criminology) - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, in a rational system, the punishment system must be graduated so that the punishment more closely matches the crime. Punishment is not retribution or revenge because that is morally deficient: the hangman is paying the murder the compliment of imitation. Bentham's ideas strengthened the principles behind the prison system.

8. Sociology of punishment - Wikipedia

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   Use: that punishment is only justified when it has some use – that is, preventing further crime [Lessnoff, 1971:141]. Value: that punishment is only justified when it is most conducive to the welfare of society [Ten, 1987:3], that is, the value society gains from the punishment is more than the disadvantages incurred by the offender.

9. Category:Works based on Crime and Punishment - Wikipedia

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   Download QR code; Print/export ... Pages in category "Works based on Crime and Punishment" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...