Criminology: Theories of Crime & Deviance

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Turn to almost any television station and you are likely to see a program that involves crime and the criminal justice system. The public’s interest in crime can’t seem to be satisfied. Every newspaper and television news program spends an excessive amount of column inches or airtime covering stories about crime. In fact most TV news programs lead with a story on crime. In the last year, the airwaves have been overtaken with stories of police shootings, with the police as both perpetrators and victims.

The discipline of criminology has continued to see students flock to it to study and understand crime and criminals. Many students take this course as one of the first as a criminology/criminal justice major. Others take it because of interest and also because it serves as one of your social science requirements. To say that the subject of criminology is popular among students and the general public would be somewhat of an understatement.

The question though is, what is criminology? Are criminology and criminal justice just two terms to describe the same subject, or are criminology and criminal justice two different subjects? When we talk about the study of criminology, what does it include? Throughout the text, Criminology: Theories of Crime & Deviance explores and answers these questions.