ABSTRACT
Students in Eglin's sociology of crime course, in informal surveys conducted more or less annually through the 2000s, reported their participation in crime at the roughly average rates. A considerable range of occupations deals with crime, from police to Supreme Court Justices, from legal secretaries to crime scene investigators, from crime beat reporters to prison guards and from academic criminologists to Ministry of the Attorney-General researchers. Some types of crime are engaged in by some people on a more or less occupational basis like drug trafficking and drug dealing, armed robbery, safe cracking, shoplifting, contract killing, burglary, living off the avails of prostitution and human trafficking. The fundamental idea informing the approach being taken in the subject of sociology and crime is that members of society are sociologists just by virtue of being members of society. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
