近年來，台灣社會隨著科技進步與工商快速發展，人們的物質生活雖然大幅提高，但是犯罪現象卻始終是個問題。觀察台灣甚至全球的犯罪趨勢，都會發現各個國家普遍有犯罪率提高，犯罪類型多元化、暴力化、年輕化等趨勢。在科技發展、物質進步、知識積累的現代社會，相較於以往社會進步太多、解決問題的能力增強，但是犯罪問題卻未能獲得抑制、改善，是甚麼原因導致這種現象呢？這是一個值得深思的問題。
人們對犯罪原因和防治的探索自人類有犯罪以來就從未停止過，這種對於犯罪的相關研究在近代形成了犯罪學此一學門。此種以犯罪、犯罪人及犯罪防治為研究對象的犯罪學經歷了一個從古典階段、實證階段和現代階段的發展過程。在古典階段停留在哲學式的思考來理解犯罪，在實證階段則是從人類學出發，重點是犯罪人個人的生理與心理特徵，進而帶出犯罪生物學與犯罪心理學。然而，這些形上學的思考，或者以個人為出發點、注重個案的犯罪研究，其科學性受到各方面的挑戰，其所得出的結論也不能完全解釋犯罪的成因。因此，犯罪社會學派應運而生。社會學的基本原理從個人、社會、個人與社會的相互關係的角度對犯罪這一社會現象進行了深入地研究，著眼於個人是如何受到其他人和各種社會系統所影響、制約、調整、約束或決定的；此外，犯罪與犯罪控制也是一種社會問題，使用社會學的觀點能得到最清楚的闡述與理解。因此，從社會學的角度，個人的行為若根據其社會環境與條件來思考，可以得到最合理的解釋。
本學期這門課即在於介紹犯罪社會學的相關理論，並藉由案例討論熟習及應用這些理論。藉此，期望能夠讓學生了解犯罪社會學之發展、概況，並學習相關理論；同時落實理論與實務結合，使學生能夠分析台灣的偏差與犯罪現狀；最後，藉由對概念與理論的認識，幫助學生對於社會中的犯罪現象有更清楚的認識，並藉以形成防制與解決之觀點。

In recent years, with the advancement of science and technology and the rapid development of industry and commerce in Taiwanese society, although people's material lives have greatly improved, crime has always been a problem. Observing the crime trends in Taiwan and even around the world, we will find that various countries generally have increasing crime rates, diversified crime types, violent crimes, and younger crimes. In a modern society with technological development, material progress, and knowledge accumulation, society has made much progress compared to the past, and its ability to solve problems has been enhanced, but crime problems have not been suppressed or improved. What is the reason for this phenomenon? This is a question worth pondering.
People's exploration of the causes and prevention of crime has never stopped since human beings committed crimes. This kind of related research on crime formed the discipline of criminology in modern times. This kind of criminology, which takes crime, offenders and crime prevention as its research objects, has experienced a development process from the classical stage, the empirical stage and the modern stage. In the classical stage, we stayed at philosophical thinking to understand crime. In the empirical stage, we started from anthropology, focusing on the physical and psychological characteristics of criminals, and then brought out criminal biology and criminal psychology. However, the scientific nature of these metaphysical thinking, or crime research that takes individuals as the starting point and focuses on individual cases, has been challenged in various aspects, and the conclusions drawn cannot fully explain the causes of crime. Therefore, the sociological school of crime came into being. The basic principles of sociology conduct an in-depth study of the social phenomenon of crime from the perspective of the individual, society, and the interrelationship between the individual and society, focusing on how individuals are affected, restricted, adjusted, constrained or determined by other people and various social systems; in addition, crime and crime control are also social issues, which can be most clearly explained and understood using the sociological perspective. Therefore, from a sociological perspective, an individual's behavior can be most reasonably explained if it is considered in light of its social environment and conditions.
This course in this semester is to introduce the relevant theories of criminal sociology, and to become familiar with and apply these theories through case discussions. Through this, it is expected that students can understand the development and overview of the sociology of crime and learn relevant theories; at the same time, it can integrate theory and practice so that students can analyze the current situation of deviation and crime in Taiwan; finally, through understanding of concepts and theories, it can help students have a clearer understanding of crime phenomena in society and form perspectives on prevention and solution.

授課教師不要求各位同學買書，但各位同學必須仔細研讀授課教師所準備的PPT。PPT的內容是依據每週上課進度所編排，並且作為期中與期末考試的題庫來源。

The instructor does not require students to buy books, but students must carefully study the PPT prepared by the instructor. The content of PPT is arranged according to the weekly class progress and serves as a question bank source for midterm and final exams.