Essays on Criminology Theories

The phenomenon of a serial killer has always been a complex focus in the media and the general public. Two main theories which can vindicate the killings that Ted Bundy committed are known as positivism and classical theory. Theorist Lombroso, who specialised in positivism, suggested...

Since the evolution of humans, crime has been an illegal practice. Crime is the term for unlawful deviance which is deemed punishable by the state. To gain authority over the practices, the criminology discipline was born to learn how to suppress and prevent any future...

The concept of cultural criminology is strongly rooted within the phenomena of crime, deviance, and transgression, in which it positions itself as a response to the abject failure of mainstream criminology unprepared for the arrival of late modernity. Over the past two decades, the discipline...

Criminology is the multifaceted study of crime and criminality. With origins in medico-legal science, scientifically-oriented psychology & sociology, it can be described as a ‘strange beast’ (Newburn, 2017). Garland 2002 (as cited in Newburn, 2017) establishes that the empirically grounded, scientific nature of criminology differentiates...