ABSTRACT
As positivism evolved, it eventually encompassed, under the term ‘deviance’, the many forms of behaviour left behind by the Classical tradition. Lacking the Classical theory of behaviour, however, positivists have not been able to deal with the connections among the many acts that make up deviance and crime. Consequently, they have tended to develop behaviour-specific theories and to treat the relations between deviance and crime as cause and effect rather than as manifestations of a single cause. One purpose of this [theory] is to reunite deviance and crime under a general theory of behaviour.
