evaluate biological and psychological approaches to criminology
Evaluate Biological and Psychological Approaches to Criminology In order to evaluate theories of both biological and psychological reasoning in approach to criminology I have studied a number of well-known and different perspectives. ... Caesare lombroso has been dubbed the founder of the positivist school of criminology and was the first to take what we would call today a scientific approach in answering the question of why crime is committed and by who. ... He claims all human behaviour is predetermined by our genes and their evolutionary history; society being a product our biological instincts. ... Freud believed psychological problems might manifest themselves in an individuals adult psyche if these stages of development were not satisfied. ... It requires an ‘expert’who is capable of interpreting, rather guessing at the root cause of a person s psychological disturbance based on all expansive principles; by labeling the such and drawing conclusions based on his own predetermined values which may vary from the subjects. ... Psychological theories in general are very difficult to test scientifically. ... The theories for social learning are convincing , but not conclusive; never the less they are another viewpoint worthy of consideration, and do contrast to both biological and physiological. ... However it is clearly not the consequence of particular biological or psychological or environmental/social concerns ,but most probably a concoction of them.