QE (INTRO TO CRIM)

• Jeremy Bentham (1823) – he advocate the “utilitarian hedonism” or “Hedonistic Calculus” the theory that a person always in such a way as to seek pleasure and avoid pain.
• Raffaele Garofalo in 1885, an Italian Law professor coined the term “criminology” (in Italian, (criminologia).
• Utilitarian hedonism


  The theory that a person always acts in such a way as to seek pleasure and avoid pain
• Criminology


  The study of delinquency and crime as a social phenomenon, including the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and the reactions toward the breaking of laws
• Differential association theory


  The theory that society is composed of different group organizations and that behavior is learned, not inherited
• Law of saturation


  The theory that crimes against persons increased during summer while crimes against property increased during winter
• Theory of imitation


  The theory that crime is learned through imitation of others
• Richard Dugdale studied the lives of the members of the JUKES FAMILY and referred to ADA JUKES as the MOTHER OF CRIMINALS
• Social contract


  A society is a "structured community of people" bound together by similar traditions, institutions, or nationality, with components of people, jurisdictions, and law
• Nature of criminology


  • It is dynamic, changing as social conditions change and concomitant with the advancement of other sciences
  • It is nationalistic, the study of crimes must be in relation with the existing criminal law within a territory or country
• Criminal ecology


  The study of criminality in relation to the spatial distribution in a community
• Criminal physical anthropology


  The study of criminality in relation to physical constitution of men
• The Philippine College of Criminology is the first-ever educational institution that offers Criminology
• RA 11131 is an act regulating the practice of the Criminology profession in the Philippines
• Sociology of law


  An attempt to offer scientific analysis of the conditions which penal/criminal laws has developed as a process of formal and social control
• Etiology of Crime/ Criminal etiology


  An attempt to offer a scientific analysis of the causes of the crime
• Prosecution


  Considers the background to determine whether the person arrested for violating a law should be prosecuted
• Classical Criminology


  Revolves around the idea that people are rational, have free will, and are responsible for their actions, as well as crimes committed
• Neo-Classical Criminology


  Revolves around the factors that lead to potential offenders making the choice to commit a crime and how to deter those criminals
• Endomorph


  A type of body physique with a relative predominance of soft, roundness throughout the regions of the body, and low specific gravity
• Pseudo-criminals


  Criminals who kill in self-defense
• Types of traits

  • Common traits
  • Secondary traits
• Extroversion


  An individual draws their energy from and how they interact with others
• Phlegmatic


  A type of temperament that states that a person is sluggish
• Imbeciles


  People with mental defectiveness, whose thought not amounting to idiocy, is yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, with mentality like a child of 2 to 7 years old
• Monophobia


  The fear of being alone
• Nyctophobia


  The fear of darkness
• Algophobia


  The fear of pain
• Hyperesthesia


  A Symptom of hysteria that means excessive sensitivity
• Aphonia


  The partial inability to speak
• Mutism


  The total inability to speak
• Paresthesia


  An exceptional sensation
• Multiple personality


  Also called "dual personality", where the person manifests two or more symptoms of personality that are usually dramatically different from each other
• Compulsive Neurosis


  The uncontrollable or irresistible impulse to do something
• Pyromania


  A compulsive desire to set fire
• Dipsomania


  A compulsive desire to drink alcohol
• Kleptomania


  The compulsive desire to steal
• Homicidal Compulsion


  The irresistible urge to kill somebody
• Phobic disorder


  The persistent fear of some objects or situations that present no actual danger to the person
• Somatoform disorders


  A branch of anthropology concerned with the comparative study of human evolution, variation, and classification especially through measurement and observation