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Student Number 172620 Degree Course Title BSc Policing and Police Studies Unit Title Issues in Criminology Question Title Assess the contribution of control theory to our understanding of crime and criminality Assess The Contribution Of Control Theory To Our Understanding Of Crime And Criminality Introduction Before evaluating the contribution of control theory, the understanding of crime and criminality needs to be explained. "What is crime?" "Who commits crime?" These are questions that we will address. Crime or unaccepted social behaviour stems back many years but it is the political element of introducing defined laws that has had a significant effect on the population. Criminality is the etiology of those that defy the laws and do not conform to social norms. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) were earlier influences from the eighteenth century and their thinking about crime gave birth to what is now known as the 'Classical School'. The classical thought did not put any...

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