Criminal creology

Criminal creology is the science that studies the relation between the creative and criminal elements within the human act itself.
The term "creology" comes from the Latin creare which means "to create", and from the greek logos (λογος) meaning "science of" or "knowledge of". The term was first coined by Dr. Anwar Frangi in 1975. He then proposed it in 1982 in a Master's thesis entitled Introduction to Criminal Creology at the University of Poitiers Faculty of Law in France, and developed it in a Doctoral Thesis (1983-1986) entitled Creation as a Criminogenic Factor: Introduction to Criminal Creology at the same university.
Frangi's thesis is a revolutionary understanding of criminality. Actually, all criminal sciences look for the causes of crime outside the act, whereas Dr. Frangi proposes to study crime within the human act itself. That all criminal sciences so far have been directing their study of crime to outside the human act itself of the crime is evident from their subject-matter. For example, criminal sociology believes that the origin of crime lies in society at large, family, groups or communities; criminal psychology sees the causes of crime in perturbations affecting the criminal personality; criminal psychiatry delves into the pathological mind of the criminal to find the causes of his criminality, etc. Frangi, in a totally opposite approach, has called for shifting the study of crime from outside to inside the human act itself of the crime. This would, actually, avoid misunderstanding the nature of criminal act, and would give crime a more stable and assured study than would the other criminal sciences give it. The criminal sciences understanding of crime actually depends on cultural relativity: what would be considered as a crime in one state would not be deemed to be so in another state, and what would be labelled as a crime within one state at one time would be differently understood at a different time in the same state. Frangi, by proposing a "structural study" of crime, as he called it in the introduction of his doctoral thesis, meaning a study of crime moving from without to within the human act itself of the crime, has considered that there is a constant value of transgression, along with creation, within every human act.
Criminal creology also studies how the development of creative activity may influence the development of the criminal personality components of the person dealing with creative activity. Thus, Frangi started his doctoral thesis with studying how the creative activity would influence the development of the creator's criminal personality components. Of course this does not mean that a person dealing with creative activity would be led to be criminal! This only means that the transgression and creative aspects of every human act have a specific value which should be taken into consideration when determining the criminal's responsibility. This also means that a legislative act, by the fact that it is a human act, has a creative and a transgressive elements within it,which should be taken into account when defining the criminal's responsibility. This means that the value of transgression within the legislative act should be subtracted from the quantity of blame imposing upon the criminal. and a journalist with the leading Lebanese newspaper Al-Anwar, published in the newspaper January and February issues commentary on Frangi's research.<ref name="hanna" />

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