Learning Objectives

  • Describe how positivists seek to uncover the basic causes of crime.
     
  • Identify several early biological theories and the issues related to these theories.
     
  • Discuss the development of more recent biological theories.
     
  • Summarize the influence of the individual human mind, personality, and behavior on crime as presented by psychological theories.
     
  • Identify the connection between biological and psychological theories and crime policy.