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The police have considerable choice about which crimes and criminals to prosecute. Examine the implication of this view for positivists sociological theory of crime.
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The police have considerable choice about which crimes and criminals to prosecute. Examine the implication of this view for positivists sociological theory of crime The positivist's theory of crime is based around the thought that statistics are an accurate representation of crime. If this statement is true then what the positivists say is wrong. This to be considered in the question is whether the police really do pick whom they prosecute as well as the usefulness of statistics. The interectionist interpretation of crime is base don the idea that social groups create deviance by making the rules so they would agree with the above statement. Interactionist Becker 1973 says that deviance is created by public/social reaction and not the initial individual action, and that deviance is only deviance if publicly labelled as such through the process of interaction in which meaning is established. So they would disagree on the positivist's...
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