Learning Objectives

  • Review the role of theory in criminology.
     
  • Describe how demonological theory is applied to control crime. 
     
  • Identify the role of free will and rationality in explaining crime in classical theory.
     
  • Discuss how neoclassical theories emerged from classical theories.
     
  • Describe the use of statistical, geographic, and cartographic data in early criminological theories.
     
  • Explain the influence of economic theory on early criminological theories.
     
  • Identify the connection between early criminological theories and crime policy.