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Criminology is not the same as criminal justice studies or penology or legal scholarship. What, then, is criminology? The question that follows -- what is crime? -- is even more complicated than the first. Someone decides what crime is: who and why?
- Can you think of any advances now occurring in the social or physical sciences that might soon have a significant impact on our understanding of crime and criminality? If so, what would those advances be? How might they affect our understanding of crime and criminal behavior?
- In what way is contemporary criminology interdisciplinary? Why is the sociological perspective especially important in studying crime? What other perspectives might be relevant? Why?
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Running head: CRIMINOLOGY
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Criminology: Influence of Advances in Social and Physical Sciences
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Criminology: Influence of Advances in Social and Physical Sciences
The Internet and Crime
The evolution of technology has had seismic impacts on crime from large-scale crimes
like cyber hacking to lesser, but still impactful, criminal acts like cyber bullying on social media.
While the Digital Age has yielded many benefits in our lives, very few people would have
imagined that technology would facilitate crime and pave the way for new crimes. During the
pre-internet and pre-mobile phones era, the police were occupied with everyday crimes like
home burglaries or street fights (Baker, 2014). As things stand, law enforcement is dividing its
resources to cover new age crimes that are becoming increasingly complex. The definition of
crime continues to broaden as more unlawful activities are added to the list such as phone
hacking, identity theft,...
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