A Comprehensive Review of Theories of Crime

A Comprehensive Review of Theories of Crime

There exist different theoretical explanations of crime. These explanations are embedded in theories such as the classical theory, positivism, biological, cultural, family, genetic and realism just to mention a few. This section shall discuss all these theories.

The classical theory holds the view that an Individual has the communication ability to make a choice between offending and not offending. It is therefore suitable for an offender to be punished because they had the choice to do the right thing. In the classical theory, the laws should be enacted should foster a similarity where they affect all human kind. Punishment should also not be too severe or too little, it should match the severity of the…