Sociology and Criminology

Sociology and Criminology

Criminological accounts are inscribed to highlight the relationship between the epistemologies of legalism and the social sciences (in particular, sociology), between the competing ontologies of crime and deviance. Legality defines the crime; sociology offers the relativism of anthropology's understanding of deviance (Wetzell, 2007). If legality offered certainty, clarity, and logic, sociology opposed this with reflexivity, relativism and continual questioning.

If legality offered certainty, clarity, and logic, sociology opposed this with reflexivity, relativism and continual questioning. Criminology offers species of trust. Trust in the legal processes to demarcate the good and the evil, the allowed and the prohibited, the ...