If one thing emerges immediately from reading “The Variety of Critical Theory,” it is that postmodernism, in its application to criminological theory, certainly may have attempted to clarify criminological ideas but it did so in a dense and sometimes seemingly (unnecessarily?) complicated fashion. Trying to navigate the definitions of postmodernism,...

Abstract This paper analyzes the reading “Social Power and the Construction of Crime.” It examines several different theorists, beginning with the economic influences as studied by Marx and Engels up through the turbulent 1960s and how the events of that decade influenced criminal theory. This paper shows how Bonger built...

In the study of the world leading newspaper ‘The Guarding,’ the reflection on the modern-day slavery raises the vulnerability of the specific groups of workers and the exploitation of human labor. The paper asserts that ‘slavery, forced labor, and trafficking are serious crimes under international and most national laws.’ (Plant,...

The positivist school of the criminology asserts that scientific objectivity should play a measuring role in the assessment of the criminal behavior. In other words, the scientific knowledge is the critical area for shaping the criminal assessments. In criminology, the positivist approach demonstrated a scientifically proven link between the lower...

The development of latent fingerprints has been a tremendous technique of solving criminal cases in the recent years. However, some of the laboratory reagents and chemical treatments that are used to develop the prints can interfere with the collection of DNA. Some of the reagents and chemical treatments that can...