ABSTRACT
In 1975 JonFrauley published an article entitled 'The Implications of the Sociology of C. Wright Mills for Modern Criminological Theory'. He argues that, with the exception of his classic article 'The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists', Mills was not noted for any substantive contribution to the field of criminology. However, a comprehensive model of a social system Mills had developed to understand human beings, society and their interrelationship in history could provide the basis for a comprehensive theory of criminal behaviour. He premise was that Mills produced a 'working model of a social system', an integrative model that sought to correct Pragmatism's essentially inadequate conception of social structure and Max Weber's deficient notion of personality-formation. Mills used this working model in the same manner, as did the classical theorists, as a basis upon which theories are constructed.
