Inductive vs. Deductive Approaches in Law and Criminology

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Inductive vs. Deductive Approaches in Law and Criminology

Inductive Approach

It is an objective process; deductive reverse also defined as an incomplete, because of the particular to reach the general, and does not provide absolute certainty. Despite this, the inductive method is used repeatedly in science, since the generalization of events is a process that provides a structure to all experimental sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology are based in principle on the observation of a phenomenon (a particular case) and then conduct research and experiments that lead to scientific generalization.

Deductive Approach

It is a subjective process that starts from a general understanding and using scientific instruments to reach a particular complex to simple. The application of the deductive method leads to an understanding with absolute certainty. The deductive method allows from a set of hypotheses and reaches a conclusion. The deductive method as a tool of scientific knowledge is directly related to our human experience, our senses and our memory, which is why our own limitations because not only would have allowed its application with the current progress of science (Holmes, Holmes, 2009).

Inductive vs. Deductive Approaches

They are part of the legal method of exegesis and deduction. The application that the lawyer makes in legal science is a dogmatic knowledge based on the method of exegesis. In that law enforcement is considered crucial legal certainty for the logical-deductive reasoning. Their role is to specify and realize the meaning of the standard abstract and generic. Hence the classical form of reasoning is the syllogism which is outlined with a major premise consisting of general and abstract rule, a minor premise, which is a set of facts and individuals, through the mechanism defined evidence, and a conclusion sentence that serves and is developing automatic or logical argument. It is traditionally considered the appropriate method is the logical-deductive, and characterized the legal doctrine. There is no rational basis for it, and adherence to certainty based on the logical-deductive method, in which it is assumed that every right is in the law, no loopholes, it is more an attitude comparable to that faith. Essentially corresponds to a rational development that takes as done to perfection and integrity of the system, claiming that it strikes as accurately as possible. Leibniz suggested that it was possible to build two or three rules all the Roman law, and through the ...