Largely based on the writings of Karl Marx, conflict criminology holds that crime in capitalist societies cannot be adequately understood without a recognition...

Criminology (from Latin crimen, "accusation", and Ancient Greek -λογία, -logia, from λόγος logos meaning: "word, reason") is the interdisciplinary study...

for conflict is always present, it is continually neutralised by the power of a ruling class. Radical criminology is related to critical and conflict criminology...

Critical criminology is a perspective in criminology that challenges traditional beliefs about crime and criminal justice, often by taking a conflict perspective...

Retrieved 14 July 2020. Weitzer, Ronald (2003). Current Controversies in Criminology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education Press. p. 150. Mann...

functionalists, it adopts a predefined political philosophy. As in conflict criminology, it focuses on why things change, identifying the disruptive forces...

In criminology, rational choice theory adopts a utilitarian belief that humans are reasoning actors who weigh means and ends, costs and benefits, in order...

Cultural criminology is a subfield in the study of crime that focuses on the ways in which the "dynamics of meaning underpin every process in criminal...

In the fields of sociology and criminology, strain theory is a theoretical perspective that aims to explain the relationship between social structure...

Anthropological criminology (sometimes referred to as criminal anthropology, literally a combination of the study of the human species and the study of...