Monday, February 14, 2011
Topic for the Research Paper
We are supposed to talk about topics that we are thinking about writing about for the research paper, but I've already decided to discuss Criminology Theories. Criminology Theories are the basis for the field since Criminology is literally the study of crime and the theories are how we explain crime. Each theory has its own strengths and weaknesses and not one is thought to be the reason crime occurs. The theories fall into broad categories such as; Classical or Neoclassical, Biological, Psychological/Psychiatric, Social Structure Approaches, Social Process Theories and Social Conflict Theories. Under the broad categories are more specific theories by various people in the various fields including; Lombroso "The Father of Criminology", the famous psychologist Freud and multiple theories put forth by Hirschi and Gottfredson. Various key figures in other fields come into play because Criminology is interdisciplinary. I'm not really sure what exploratory questions I have but I want to look at the causes of violent crimes rather than property crimes even though property crimes are more common because I feel like violent crimes effect people more severely. I want to try to explain why a theory is good, what the problems with some are and how they can be approved as well as which ones I agree with the most and why. i am then going to propose my own theory by combining a few of the ones together rather than keeping them to certain aspects like social problems or biological problems.
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