CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Science, Class Conflict, Offender Profiling
6 Dec 2018
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Positivism: a central theoretical and methodological approach in the history and contemporary practice of criminology. Saw crime as a matter of individual choice. Crime is explained by reference to forces and factors outside of the decision. Period of consolidation of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production in. Witnessed major technological developments and the entrenchment of mass production rather than agricultural production and merchant trading. The creation and expansion of the factory system. Introduction of production technologies and sources of energy. Emergence of a new social class -- working class: proletariats. New thinking on the nature of humans through charles darwin. In particular, using biology as the foundation, positivist social scientists argued society was like an organism made up of several components that works together to ensure the success and proper functioning of the whole. One part of the society must be corrected for the entire society to do the same.
