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Question
1. What is crime? What is the definition of crime that the author of this text has chosen to use?
2. What is deviance? How are crime and deviance similar? How do they differ?
3. Who decides what should be criminal? How are such decisions made?
4. What is criminology? What are its many roots?
5. What do criminologists do?
6. What is evidence-based criminology? How does it complement theoretical criminology?
7. How does criminology, and especially criminological research, influence social policy? What is translational criminology?
8. What is the theme of this text? Upon what two contrasting viewpoints does it build?
9. What is the social context of crime? What are crime's consequences?
10. What social science has traditionally provided a central theoretical basis for criminology? Why?