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Nature of Criminology Criminology is an exploration of the nature and extent of the problem of crime in society. For years criminologists have been attempting to unravel criminal behaviour Most of the research in modern study of criminology in order to understand criminal behaviour, what causes it and how it can be prevented and punished is conducted by sociologists (Anglia Ruskin 2006)., however biological and psychological approach to the causation of crime have been important in the past and continue to do so today. For example Cesare Lombroso's theory of the Atavism and William Sheldon's theory of Somatotypes in the history of biological perspective of crime, although found deficient but the emphasis on the collection of data to test hypotheses about criminals became the basis of modern criminology (John E. Conklin 2004). Biological explanations do not help us understand why crime rates vary from one society to another but do...

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