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United States Marine Corps

Submitted by Vsmooth8 on May 5, 2008

Category: American History
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Theories of Crime
and
Criminal Activity

CJ Criminology, Semester 2

Professor I. Benard

April 20, 2008


Every theory of crime has at least 2-3 meta-theoretical levels

above it. The fundamental issues are usually addressed at the

approach level, and are often called the assumptions, or starting

points, of a theory, although the term "assumptions" more strictly

refers to the background or domain boundaries one can draw

generalizations about. Above the approach level is the

Perspective level, the largest unit of agreement within a

scientific community, and in fact, the names for the scientific

disciplines. Perspectives are sometimes called paradigms or

viewpoints, although some people use the term paradigm to refer

to untestable ideologies such as: (1) rational choice; (2)

pathogenesis; (3) labeling; (4) critique for the sake of critique;

and (5) theoretical integration.

Theory is the foundation of criminology and of criminal

justice, and we study theory to know why we are doing what we do

(Bohm 1985). Theory without research is not science. All

research must be based on theory. People who are uninterested in

theory choose to move blindly through life, or in the case of

criminal justice, intervene in people's lives with only vague

notions about why they are doing what they are doing.

The most important task of theory is explanation, which is

also called prediction. An explanation is a sensible way of

relating the facts about some particular phenomenon to the

intellectual atmosphere of a people at a particular time...

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