Criminals

Criminals

In the view of many who study crime and criminality, one of the main reasons to collect information about crime is to test the theories about its cause. This approach dates back to the mid-1800s, when August Comte (1798-1857), a French sociologist, suggested that knowledge and understanding in social science can advance only if the scientific (positivist) principles of the natural sciences are applied. A number of disciplines, particularly biology, psychology, and sociology, have studied crime and criminality. Researchers in each of these disciplines have viewed crime from their own perspective, suggesting that their perspective may provide the identification the cause ...