How does criminology differ from criminal justice?
What will be an ideal response?
Possible answer: As indicated on page 1, criminal justice is focused more on identifying and executing practical solutions while criminology focuses on the basic nature of crime (e.g., finding the causes of crime in its many forms). Criminal justice ‘practitioners' are typically the ‘boots on the ground' while criminologists and researchers typically take the information from the front lines (e.g., crime rates or criminality), analyze this data with a theoretical perspective in mind, and further elaborate on criminal justice successes, failures, and the nature of crime in our society. Together they form research-practitioner partnerships that can blend hands-on experience with the knowledge gained through research to help shape the best social policies possible. Thus, criminal justice practitioners are the police chiefs, the wardens, the managers of the rehabilitation centers, and the probation and parole chiefs (and all the people who work for them). Criminologists are professors, researchers at government agencies and ‘think tanks,' and to a lesser extent, those who provide research and evaluation services for police agencies, prisons, the courts, etc.
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a. double blind experiment b. cross sectional design c. panel design d. field experiment
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A) To burn a structure. B) To consume a structure in fire. C) To start a fire. D) To kill occupant of the dwelling.
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A) ?suggestions B) ?edicts C) ?laws D) ?norms
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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