In this last week of the semester, we will finally focus on feminist theories in criminology. Feminist theories in criminology insist that women’s deviance was worthy of academic inquiry and contributes to our understanding of …
This week we will focus on the last crop of theories we are going to discuss in this class. We begin with identifying the difference between mainstream and critical criminology. The critical perspectives, including conflict …
This week we will learn about the labeling theory. Originating in the mid-to-late-1960s in the United States at a moment of tremendous political and cultural conflict, labeling theorists brought to center stage the role of …
This week we will focus on social control theories. These theories assume everyone has the desire to commit criminal and deviant acts and seeks to answer why some people refrain from doing so. Control theories …
This week we will focus on the Chicago School of Criminology. This theoretical branch focuses on understanding how neighborhood-level variables are connected to crime rates. We will review the work of Burgess and Park and their …
This week we are introduced to the mainstream sociological approaches for understanding crime. We start with Durkheim’s anomie theory, which postulated that social changes and the feeling of normlessness in society were linked to the crime. Merton expanded …
This week we will focus on the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois in criminology. While he is not customarily identified as a criminologist, but many of his writings included discussions about crime. In the …
This week we will focus on psychological theories. Freudian theory accompanies this perspective as does the theories of Hans Eysenck, B.F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Samuel Yochelson, and Stanton Samenow. We will also review important …
This week we are looking into biological explanations for criminal behavior. We will look into the positivist theory. In essence, the positivist approach to understanding crime begins with the application of the scientific method, discovery …
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