International
Criminology
Conference
October 14, 2016
Washington, DC
Is using the humanities and social sciences (psychology,
sociology, law, etc.) to understand the crime, the criminal, the
victim, criminality, and society’s reaction to crime a science? A
crime is the unique combination of a perpetrator, a victim, and
a set of circumstances. Its individual and quantitative analysis
requires scientific methods and specific intellectual and technical
abilities. Emile Durkheim emphasizes that “[...] A number of
acts can be observed, all with the external characteristic that
once accomplished, they provoke this particular reaction from
society known as punishment. We make of them a group sui
generis, on which we impose a common rubric. We call any
punished act a crime and make crime thus defined the focus of
a dedicated science: criminology.”
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