Anydeviation from the permissible acts in any society is an abnormal behavior. If
these abnormal acts are pronouncedly deviant and pose threat to communal peace
and order, then they are known as crimes. Therefore, crime may be defined as an
act inimical to social peace and harmony. So, crimes are hurtful to social
stability, and are more expected to appear in larger cities. To be able to
control and prevent crimes, we need to study the various causes and roots of
crimes in a systematic manner. However, the discipline involved in such a
systematic investigation is known as criminology.
Oneof the increasing vulnerabilities observed in megacities at present is
addiction in general within the young cohort which often leads to prostitution
by the female youth. When any female allows use of her body for sexual relation
against payment of some money to many persons, this is an immoral activity and
poses a threat to the society. Prostitution is considered immoral and unsocial
because it commercializes and degenerates love, and asserts the supremacy of
bodily values over social and moral.
The
scope of criminology is quite vast and wide. It is relates to all social
classes and structures. However, criminologists have tried to limit its scope
so as to be able to study the subject scientifically and systematically. To
elaborate it, here are the viewpoints of some notable criminologists: According
to the science of criminology “includes within its scope the process of making
laws, of breaking laws, and of reacting towards the breaking of laws”.
According to Sutherland’s description of the scope of criminology, we can
divide it into departments: The sociology of law, criminal etiology and
penology.
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