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Understanding Criminology
- What is Criminology?
- Criminology as Science
- What is a Crime?
- What are the ingredients of Crime?
- Concept of Mens Rea (Guilty Mind)
- Stages of Commission of Crime
Series of Acts as Crime
- Sequential or Consecutive Acts
- Continuing Offences
- Cumulative or Aggregate Offences
- Joint or Collective Criminal Acts
- Serial Offences
- Related or Connected Acts
- Aggravated or Enhanced Series of Acts
- Pattern of Criminal Activity (Signature Crimes)
Schools of Criminology
Theories of Criminology
- Merton’s Theory of Social Structure and Anomie (Strain Theory)
- Psychodynamic Theory
- Subcultural Theory
- Cognitive Theory
- Multiple Factor Theory
Crimes of Powerful
- Organized Crimes
- Characteristics of Organized Crimes
- Forms of Organized Crimes
- Control of Organized Crimes
- Organized Crimes in India
- White Collar Crimes
- White-Collar Crimes in Different Professions
Miscellaneous