Introduction

In this article, we shall study the nature, type of crime as defined and methods propounded by various jurists for controlling them and we also study criminology as subject its origin, classification, methodology and approaches in criminology for study of crimes. The interpretation of the historical development of criminology , any such history is inevitably a contentious undertaking, entailing theoretical choices and rhetorical purposes as well as the selection and arrangement of historical materials. Whether they acknowledge it or not, histories of the discipline necessarily come up against fundamental issues