ABSTRACT
Criminology-the “speci‡c genre of discourse and inquiry about crime” (Garland, 2002, p. 7)—covers a variety of topics, scienti‡c approaches, and dierent disciplines, according to prevalent institutional, political, and cultural contexts. In a strict legal sense, criminology focuses on the making and breaking of laws and society’s reaction to the breaking of laws (Sutherland and Cressey, 1960/1924). In a broader sense, criminology is associated with the study of deviance and social control in societies along with policing, order maintenance, and the adherence to and perpetuity of norms and values of a society. Again, another thread of criminological endeavor is interested in the consequences of crime such as feelings of insecurity and fear of crime.
