Importance of theory in crime

Debates in theory***

Two schools of theorising

Sociological imagination

Biological positivism

Psychological positivism

Social structures

Social processes
(Sutherland differential association theory)

Social processes
(Control theories)

Social processes
(William Bonger 1916)

Social processes
(Tannenbaum 1938)

Social processes
(Jock Young 1942 and Stan Cohen 1963)

Critical Criminology