KeyWord:
crime, legal, law, scientific, social, nation, criminology, sociology, psychology
Abstract:
There is a conspicuous difference between the legal and scientific approaches to the problems of crime. The law is an older discipline, is more heavily weighted with tradition, and, in many cases, is in direct conflict with the empirical findings of the social sciences. The authors' text presents the problems of criminology from both points of view and attempts to indicate how advances in psychology and sociology have brought about changes in the traditional legal conceptions of crime.