CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Somatotype And Constitutional Psychology, Due Process, Adolphe Quetelet
8 Mar 2017
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All theories are provisional never actually proven, just have more confidence in one theory than others. Theories take thread during times they are speaking to a common listening at a moment in time. Theories of crime: a number of fitful leads from one partially examined thesis to another (rock 1980) Explanations of crime arise from particular historical contexts and reflect the social, political, and intellectual fashions of the day. Every theory contains (explicit or implicit) statements about the nature of human agency and the nature of social structure. Always identify a particular theorist"s take on this set of issues. Many different assumptions on how people are the way they are every theory takes a different stand. Ex: society is fair or unfair social structure. Our job is to figure out the position or take that theorists are taking. Crime as sin and the effect of evil external forces which become internalized.
