ABSTRACT
This book has examined the different ways that crime and criminal behaviour has been explained during the past 200 years and while these explanations have been proposed at various times by among others legal philosophers, biologists, psychologists, sociologists, political scientists and geographers, it is possible to locate these many and varied explanations – or criminological theories – in terms of one of three different general models or traditions that were the focus of the first three parts of this book.
