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3 unusual facts about Criminology


Criminology

Statutes are enacted by legislatures and reflect current cultural mores, albeit that some laws may be controversial, e.g. laws that prohibit cannabis use and gambling.

Joan McCord

In 1987 she became the first female president of the American Society of Criminology.

Tania Major

Born in Cairns, Queensland, to Peter Taylor and Priscilla Major, Tania Major was educated at Clayfield College and Griffith University in Brisbane, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice.


58th Grey Cup

George Springate, the Alouettes kicker, was formerly a police officer, and later a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a college (John Abbott College Cegep) teacher in criminology.

Argentine Federal Police

The PFA, since 1974, maintains a university specializing in criminology, is associated with Interpol, and participates in special forces training programs at the Los Angeles Police Department.

Banda della Magliana

One of their first contact with the Italian neofascist movement was in summer 1978 — a few months after Aldo Moro's murder — in a villa of Rieti owned by criminologist, psychiatrist and neofascist professor Aldo Semerari.

Berlin-Tegel Russian Orthodox Cemetery

Among the notables buried here are Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian criminologist, journalist, and progressive statesman during the last years of the Russian Empire, and father of the writer Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov.

Black on Both Sides

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Byrne Piven

His brother is criminology professor Herman Piven, who was for a time married to Frances Fox Piven.

Capitol University

The in-house review for the Nursing Licensure, Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS), NCLEX and Criminology Board exams were opened.

Catherine Bragg

Bragg obtained a PhD in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, a Master of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Toronto.

Charles Strong

Strong founded the first crèche in Australia at Collingwood, one of the poorer suburbs of Melbourne, was an earnest supporter of the Anti-Sweating League, the Criminology Society, the Peace Society, and other organisations for social reform.

Christopher S. Koper

Previously a research criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Firearm and Injury Center and the Director of Research at the Police Executive Research Forum, Koper specializes in research pertaining to firearms and gun violence, policing, research and statistical methodology, and white-collar crime.

Claude Poirier

Today, he still gives his comments on numerous recent crime cases or cold ones on the TVA news bulletin at 5:00PM EDT on weekdays and during the LCN morning show.

Critical criminology

Early criminologies, pejoratively referred to as ‘left idealist’ by Jock Young 1979, were never really popular in the United States, where critical criminology departments at some universities were closed for political reasons (Rock 1997).

David Kimaiyo

He is currently working on attaining a PhD in Criminology and Social order at University of Nairobi.

David Mena

He is also a graduate of criminology and international relations studies at Bar-Ilan University and of scoial services' management at Brandeis University.

David Owens

He holds a Masters degree in Leadership & Management from Charles Sturt University, a Diploma of Criminology from Sydney University and a Graduate Certificate of Management from the University of Wollongong.

Douglas Century

The New York Times Book Review saw the book as the embodiment of "hip-hop's Horatio Alger" myth: “Ice-T, in short, is someone hip-hop might have invented if he hadn’t invented himself," reviewer Baz Dreisinger wrote. "A goes-down-easy mélange of memoir, self-help, and amateur criminology. Ultimately, Ice showcases an eminently reasonable, positively likeable guy, the gangsta rapper even a parent could love.”

Edward Ross

Edward Alsworth Ross (1866–1951), American sociologist and a major figure of early criminology

Frédéric Péchenard

Péchenard teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Police, and gives occasional lectures at the Institute of Criminology of Panthéon-Assas University

Gary LaFree

LaFree is also on the editorial boards of several scientific journals including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and the International Journal of Conflict and Violence.

HM Prison Finnamore Wood

David Wilson (criminologist) the Governor of Finnamore Wood Borstal between 1986-1988 is now, Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University.

Italian school of criminology

Alexandre Lacassagne, founder of another school of criminology in France, rival to Lombroso

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

While attending, the chair of his department, Professor Enrico Ferri, appreciated the innovative ideas of Gaitán and incorporated some of his work into a volume on Criminology.

José María Valverde

That same year he married Pilar Gefaell, with whom he had five children, including Mariana Valverde, a Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto.

Kim Rossmo

After serving as director of research at the Police Foundation in Washington, DC, from 2001 to 2003, he moved to Texas State University-San Marcos where he currently holds the Endowed Chair in Criminology and is director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.

Kjersti Ericsson

She is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo.

Mark Williams-Thomas

He has an MA in criminology from Birmingham City University, where he is also studying for a PhD in the same subject.

Mercedes Otero

She also completed a Master's degree in Business Education, with a minor in Secretarial Science and Counseling, and a Doctorate in Sociology and Criminology, both from the University of Missouri.

Monster Squad

The series stars Fred Grandy (who also starred in The Love Boat and was later elected to the United States House of Representatives) as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman at "Fred's Wax Museum".

Nestor Courakis

European Society of Criminology, International Association of Penal Law (AIDP), Société Internationale de Défence Sociale, World Society of Victimology.

Born May 21, 1947 in Athens he attended the Law Faculty, University of Athens (LL.M. 1971), Law Faculty, University of Freiburg/Germany (Ph.D. on Penal Law 1978 with "summa cum laude"), Law Faculty, Panthéon-Assas University ("Diplôme d' Études approfondies" in Criminology, 1977), Paris Institute of Criminology (Diploma 1979); research work at Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany) 1978-80.

Nicholas Cowdery

He now holds a number of honorary academic positions including as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney's Institute of Criminology; a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong's law faculties; and as an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University.

Nicole Hahn Rafter

Arguable Rafer’s most influential contribution to feminist criminology has been her re-translation and resource guide to Cesare Lombroso’s La Donna Delinquente in which she reinterprets his argument of women being inferior and therefore committing crime at a lower level than that of male offenders.

Per-Kristian Foss

Foss has a cand.mag. degree in political science, public law and criminology from the University of Oslo (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science.

Philip Jenkins

Between 1977–80, Jenkins worked as a researcher for Sir Leon Radzinowicz, the pioneer of criminology studies at Cambridge.

Precrime

The new "precrime" or "security society" requires a radically new criminology (Zedner 2007; Zedner 2009; Zedner 2010; Zedner 2014).

Similar ideas were advocated by the Social Defense movement and, more recently, by what is seen and critizised as an emerging “new criminology” (Feeley/Simon 1992) or “actuary justice” (Feeley/Simon 1994).

Queensland Institute of Business and Technology

The school provides university level Diploma programs in the areas of Biosciences, Commerce, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Engineering, Graphic Design, Hotel Management and Information Technology.

Ralf Kölbel

He is professor of criminology, criminal law and criminal proceedings law at Faculty of Law, Bielefeld University.

Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion

In July 1943, Jacob became director of criminology and he worked beside psychiatrist and neurologist Carl-Heinz Rodenberg, who came on as scientific director.

Social learning

Social learning theory (criminology), a theory of crime that asserts that humans learn deviant behavior from their peers.

Sonja Kristina Linwood

Sonja Kristina Linwood was born in Brentwood, daughter of a criminologist and granddaughter of Swedish actress Gerda Lundequist.

The Sickhouse

This is a very cold case; the children disappeared in 1665, the year of the Great Plague.

Tim Godwin

He also received a BA (Hons) degree in Public Sector Police Studies from the University of Portsmouth and a Diploma in Applied Criminology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied at Fitzwilliam College.

Walter Reckless

He earned his Ph.D. in criminology in 1925 from the University of Chicago and that same year joined with sociologists Ernest Burgess and Robert Park in crime studies in the same place.


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