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dc.contributor.authorDemar, Jessica Leah
dc.creatorDemar, Jessica Leahen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-08T20:58:14Z
dc.date.available2013-03-08T20:58:14Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationDemar, Jessica Leah. (2012). The Invention and Development of the "Psychofamilial" Theory of Criminology: A Melding of Psychological and Family-Related Explanations for Why Individuals Commit Crimes (Bachelor's thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/271615
dc.description.abstractThis paper proposes an answer to the hypothesis: What causes individuals to commit crimes? This is a question that criminologists have sought the answer to for generations. I agreed with positivist crime theory that purports crime is not chosen per say but rather it is based on a deterministic model dependent on the cause-and-effect relationship between the individual and external factors in their surrounding world. Yet, I disagreed that certain theories within the positivist frame should be separated sociologically and individually. Inspired by experiences sentencing juvenile delinquents in Pima County, I proposed the unique and comprehensive Psychofamilial Theory that I concluded adequately reconciled the strengths and rectified the weaknesses, and conflicts between the sociological-familial crime theory and the individual-psychological crime theory.
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en_US
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dc.titleThe Invention and Development of the "Psychofamilial" Theory of Criminology: A Melding of Psychological and Family-Related Explanations for Why Individuals Commit Crimesen_US
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dc.typeElectronic Thesisen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen_US
thesis.degree.levelbachelorsen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHonors Collegeen_US
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.nameB.A.en_US
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html.description.abstractThis paper proposes an answer to the hypothesis: What causes individuals to commit crimes? This is a question that criminologists have sought the answer to for generations. I agreed with positivist crime theory that purports crime is not chosen per say but rather it is based on a deterministic model dependent on the cause-and-effect relationship between the individual and external factors in their surrounding world. Yet, I disagreed that certain theories within the positivist frame should be separated sociologically and individually. Inspired by experiences sentencing juvenile delinquents in Pima County, I proposed the unique and comprehensive Psychofamilial Theory that I concluded adequately reconciled the strengths and rectified the weaknesses, and conflicts between the sociological-familial crime theory and the individual-psychological crime theory.


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