SSCI 3910U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Leon Radzinowicz, Nikita Khrushchev, Testability
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There was never a department for criminology people took sociology. Sir leon radzinowicz (1906- 1999) at uni of cambridge. Nikita s. khrushchev (1894- 1971): 1953- 64. A criminological theory is a set of explicit propositions that provide sensible and tentative relationship between criminal behavior and one or more well-defined conceptualizations of social phenomena, subject to empirical verification. Criteria for evaluating theory: logical consistency, scope and parsimony, testability, empirical validity, usefulness and policy implication. Changed the way we think about criminals.
