The Criminal Justice Theory: The Causes Of Criminology

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Criminology is defined as the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, results, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on individual and social levels. Criminology is the study of how people act towards each other, and has in effect been studied in one way or another for thousands of years. It has only been compared to other things not very long ago, even though it has been recognized as a scientific control field of study in its own right The explanation of the criminal justice theory is the philosophy of law that deals with criminal justice and particular punishment. The explanation of criminal justice has deep connections to other areas related to learning about how people think, as well as to criminal justice …show more content…

Crime is a highly complex and important problem that changes across cultures and across time. This briefing provides a summary of some of the key explanations that try to explain the causes of crime. It is by no means a thorough list. Each of the explanations covered has its own strengths and weaknesses, has gaps and may only be related to certain types of crime, and not others. There is no “right” or “wrong” explanation to justify it. The Biological theory is related to the body function of living things. The explanations of this theory is to assume that some people are just down right “born criminals”, who has the body-structure-related separate from non-criminals. For more clearness of this approach I will use Cesare Lombroso as an example. In the 19th Century, Italian doctor Cesare Lombroso drew on the ideas of Charles Darwin that criminals were evolutionary throwbacks' referring that they were adapted to things slowly changing overtime. He suggested that their brains were mal-developed or not fully developed. In his review of prisoners, he found that they shared some common physical attributes, such as sloping foreheads and moving back chins. In doing so, Lombroso suggested that involvement in crime was a product of the biological theory, and that there are characteristics related to the theory, which is study of living things and the qualities of living things, which are related to the body function of living things. His explanation of this can be compared to

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