Importance Of Criminology

Criminology is the study of crime and criminals. Being a criminologist lets you see things first hand at a crime scene, some TV shows about crime and crime solving bring more interest in becoming a criminologist. Criminology is a part of science, including its causes, responses by law enforcement, and methods of prevention. It is a subgroup of sociology, which is the scientific study of social behavior. Even though criminology is science, to be a better criminologist it helps to have analytical thinking and be able to think subjectively about the world. A method that is really used in criminology to find out who a person is, is their fingerprints. It has been scientifically proven that no two fingerprints are the same everyone has their

Law means that in order for there to be a crime there has to be a law broken otherwise it 's not illegal therefore it’s not a crime. Offender means that there has to be someone who broke the law without someone breaking the law there is no crime. Victim or target means there has to be a victim in order for there to be a crime when there is a victimless crime it is based off a larger scale and the whole state or community is the victim. Place means the location where something against the law occurred which would be a crime. The four elements of crime are focused on in Environmental criminology. Environmental criminology focuses on the study of criminology discipline, the relationships between individual environments that crimes happen in and how they influence to criminal activity. Environmental criminologist focus on the fourth element of crime “place” this field developed in the 1980’s. Some of the things environmentalist focus on are the elements within the location not the geographic location. They look for data about the time and place that the crime occurred in, this helps police officers and law enforcement with a more clearer understanding of the crime