The criminological schools of thought: A general overview

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dc.contributor.authorBalogun, Obasanjo Solomon
dc.contributor.authorIsiaka, Monsurat
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-05T13:55:56Z
dc.date.available2025-05-05T13:55:56Z
dc.date.issued2021-12
dc.description.abstractCriminology is an interdisciplinary field centred around the scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour, which include their forms, causes, legal aspects, and control (Schmalleger (2017). As an interdisciplinary academic field of study, criminology integrates knowledge in other academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, biology, history, psychology, psychiatry, geography, economics, political science, law, and medicine, to the understanding of criminal behaviour. However, the quest to explain why people deviate from social norms or commit crimes has been the preoccupation of criminologists and scholars for ages (Ikuteyijo & Ajani 2014; Odoma 2014). The insatiable desire of society for social order has inspired the need for explanation of antisocial behaviours (Odoma, 2014). Thus, several criminological schools of thought and theories have been founded, in an attempt to expound on the causes of crime and criminal behaviour. Theory is a set of interrelated propositions that attempts to describe, explain, predict, and ultimately control some class of events. Theories gain explanatory power from logical consistency and are “tested” by how well they describe and predict reality. Theory gives meaning to observations, explaining what we see in a particular setting by relating it to other things already understood (Schmalleger, 2017). Criminological theories are a set of testable ideas that explain criminal behaviour. But it must be stressed that criminology has no general theory that can explain all types of criminal behaviour. As a result, most theories used in criminology are mostly integrative– that is, a combination of ideas to explain crime causation.
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-7566-3409-8
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/16096
dc.publisherThe Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin
dc.subjectciminology
dc.subjectcriminological thought
dc.subjectpenology
dc.subjecttheory
dc.titleThe criminological schools of thought: A general overview
dc.typeBook chapter

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