THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL ELEMENTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF SOCIETY'S RESPONSE TO CRIME
THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL ELEMENTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF SOCIETY'S RESPONSE TO CRIME

Summary/Abstract: The social response to crime is associated with the fight against crime. This "fight" is carried out by means specific to the defense of such important social values protected by law, respectively by legal means of criminal law and criminal procedure. Social control becomes a real mechanism by which society verifies its members, a social mechanism by which law, norms, customs, morals, ethics and morality are considered as forms of social control that impose different types of social reaction in case of their violation, by non-compliance. The reaction against delinquency, crime in general, gives rise to certain typologies. The main types of social reaction are those related to the repressive mode of reaction, the preventive typology of social reaction and the dual model. The models, the standards of criminal policy that we find in different countries, cannot be and are not identical. They are closely linked and depend on the political, social, economic and cultural specifics of each country, its own historical progress and evolution, the regional situation in which it is located but, last but not least, the state and dynamics of the criminal, national and transnational phenomenon. Using the questionnaire method, a group of respondents from different social backgrounds, of different ages, people who were more or less confronted with the act of justice was interviewed. Approaching this method of sociological research, I outlined some of the elements that reflect the reaction of society to delinquency analyzed through the prism of the state's criminal policy.

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