Criminology Of Crime

Crime is considered to be one of the most appealing topics in popular culture and because of that the public obtains a distorted version of crime. The public unfortunately lacks some knowledge when it comes to the whole overall subject of criminology, the difference amongst blue-collar and white-collar crime as well as the broad awareness of the frequency of crime occurring in the United States. The public needs to understand the different specifics of law enforcement as well as be able to differentiate between what is real and what is not.

According to (Schmalleger, 2009), typically a dictionaries definition for a criminologist would be an individual who studies crime, the individuals who are committing these crimes known as the criminal

As for a criminologist they are similar to an anthropologist which is the study of people, cultures as well as the behaviors. Criminologists focus more on the social behavior as well as how and why individuals move away from the norms of these behaviors. Criminologists create profiles of precise types of crime as well as criminals during the examination of crime statistics. Their work aide’s law enforcement in averting crime and/or quickly capture the suspect(s) after a crime has occurred. Criminologists are sometimes compared in junction with criminalists but according to (Brestovansky, 2009); criminologists are involved with psychology, sociology and individuals social behavior. Criminologists are more involved in the study of behaviors amongst certain demographics as well as analyze why they happened or change. Criminologists may have to question a suspect to find out if they fit a crime profile. Criminologists may also be present during an autopsy or the scene of a crime so they can utilize the information collected about the victim’s death so they can develop a profile concerning the potential

PhD, n.d.), the most frequent misconception about criminologists would be that all they do is train individuals to become FBI officers as well as law enforcement officers. “Criminologists look at the workings of the criminal justice system, including getting more insight into why people are violent, and ask questions about the justice part of criminal justice” (Leighton, P. PhD, n.d.). There are different misconceptions about criminalists, but the most common misconception would be individuals watching shows such as CSI that have criminalists perform interviews as well as arresting individuals. In reality criminalists don’t do that, according to (Howard, n.d.), in certain states criminalists are only allowed to use the evidence that is retrieved by the officers and in other states there are certain teams that process the crime scene. The individual who retrieves the evidence cannot be the one that analyzes it and every piece of evidence has to be sent to its own facility. Now, on shows such as CSI the DNA result is determined at the scene of the crime, but in real life it can take years to get a DNA match. As for forensic psychology one misconception would be individuals who think that forensic psychology is parallel with forensic science, but that is inaccurate. Forensic science is based on hard science and focuses on the laboratory investigation of crime scene evidence which would include DNA collecting as well as analyzing the evidence, locating