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Assignment:
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1. Criminology is the social-scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon.
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2. Criminology is the study of the origin and development of criminal law or penal law.
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3. Victimology is the study of the role of the victim in the commission of the crime.
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4. Polygraphy is the science of lie detection examination
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5. Ballistics is the study of firearms and bullets
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6. Dactyloscopy is the science of fingerprinting.
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7. Criminal Demography is the study of the relationship between criminality and population.
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8. Criminology is the study of the causes of crimes and development of criminals.
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9. Edwin H. Sutherland defined criminology as the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scopes the process of making laws of breaking laws, and of reacting toward the breaking of laws.
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10. Criminal psychology is the study of human mind in relation to criminality.
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11. Chicago School sociologists adopted a social ecology approach to studying cities, and postulated that urban neighborhoods with high levels of poverty often experience breakdown in the social structure and institutions such as family and schools.
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12. Sociological positivism postulates that societal factors such as poverty, membership of subcultures, or low levels of education can predispose people to crime.
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13. Adolphe Quetelet utilized crime statistics to suggest a link between population density and crime rates, with crowded cities creating an environment conducive for crime.
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14. Rawson W. Rawson made use of data and statistical analysis to gain insight into the relationship between crime and sociological factors.
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15. Positivism can be broken up into three segments which include biological, psychological and social positivism.
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16. Hans Eysenck claimed that psychological factors such as Extraversion and Neuroticism made a person more likely to commit criminal acts.
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17. Cesare Lombroso, an Italian prison doctor working in the late 19th century sometimes regarded as the father of criminology Lombroso took a scientific approach, insisting on empirical evidence, for studying crime.
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18. The Positivist School presumes that criminal behavior is caused by internal and external factors outside of the individual's control.
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19. Deterrence is based upon the utilitarian ontological notion of the human being a hedonist who seeks pleasure and avoids pain, and a "rational calculator".
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20. Edwin Sutherland suggested that people learn criminal behavior from old more experienced criminals that they may associate with.
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21. Routine activity theory, developed by Marcus Felson and Lawrence Cohen drew upon control theories and explained crime in terms of crime opportunities that
occur in everyday life.
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22. British subculturals theorists focused more heavily on the issue of class, where some criminal activities were seen as 'imaginary solutions to the problem of belonging to a subordinate class.
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23. Rational choice theory is based on the utilitarian, classical school philosophies of Cesare Beccaria, which were popularized by Jeremy Bentham.
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24. Gary Becker, for example, acknowledged that many people operate under a high moral and ethical constraint, but considered that criminals rationally see that the benefits of their crime outweigh the cost such as the probability of apprehension, conviction, punishment, as well as their current set of opportunities.
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25. Biosocial and psychological trait theories have emerged in modern criminology, as scientific knowledge of genetics, biochemistry, and neurology has grown.
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26. Lonnie Athens dentified four main characteristics: "attachment to others", "belief in moral validity of rrules" and"commitment to achievement and involvement in conventional activities".
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27. Richard Rhodes developed a theory about how the process of brutalization by parents or peers usually occurs in childhood results in violent crimes in adulthood.
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28. Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin suggested that delinquency can result from differential opportunities for lower class youth.
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29. Cesare Beccaria also distinguished between crime and sin, and advocated against the death penalty, as well as torture and inhumane treatments, as he did not consider themselves rational deterrents.
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30. Strain theory suggests that mainstream culture especially in the United States, is saturated with dreams of opportunity freedom and prosperity, as Merton put it to the American Dream.
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31. The provision of the criminal or penal law must be applied equally to all persons within the territory irrespective of sex, race, nationality, and other personal circumstances.
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32. The basis of criminal liability is human free will and the purpose of the penalty is retribution.
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33. Criminal law originated from a conflict of interest in different social groups.
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34. Criminal or penal law is that branch of public law that defines, crime, treats on their nature, and provides for their punishment.*
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35. The definition of crimes together with the corresponding punishment must be uniformly constructed, although there may be differential enforcement of a given specific provision of the penal law.
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36. Maritime zone is the three (3) mile limits beyond our shore measured at low tide. The entire island such as bay, rivers, and streams.
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37. The Revised Penal Code is the book that contains the Philippine Criminal Law and its also different special laws and decrees which are penal in nature January 1, 1932 effectivity of the revised penal code.
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38. Penal sanction is the most essential part of the definition of the come If there is no penalty to a prohibited act, its enforcement will almost be impossible.
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39. Criminal law originated from the national processes of a unified society.
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40. No person can be punished for his act which at the time he did is not yet punishable by law. However, penal laws may be given retroactive effect when it is favorable to the accused who is not habitual delinquent.
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