criminology

Criminal phenomenon 3 stages

1) First, criminal norms are enacted

2) They are then violated

3) This generates a repressive social reaction.

three actors who contribute to this phenomenon

the offender, the victim and the authority of the social body. Each one will develop its arguments, its strategy to convince the other, to neutralize him. The offender will seek to subjugate, deceive or outwit the victim. The authority will then want to repress, punish the offender.

The purpose of criminology

make this phenomenon intelligible: to

describe, understand and explain it. It is a scientific study of the criminal phenomenon.

Criminology def

the science that studIes the factors and processes of criminal action and then determines, based on this knowledge, the means to fight against this social scourge" (Patrick Morvan,, Lexisnexis