Fascinating read, lots to ponder here about how traits/factors are measured and assessed and even how degrees of criminality are associated to other factors.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is one of my favourite theories of crime so I made it one of my very first newsletters. Eysenck's work is kinda fun, to be honest.
I have not read it, but will certainly have to explore it. One of the aspects regarding theories of crimes that I find fascinating is that they rarely explore the social construction of crime. That is, we find x, y, z, to be criminal so we need to think about why people do x, y, z... we do not need to think about a, b, c, because a, b, c, are what normal people do.
One could argue that certain acts are almost always seen as criminal, but I think that lacks nuance (i.e. killing someone in self defense is ok), taking property (but in Kiribati there is the bubuti system where you can essentially take what you need and cannot be refused); when it comes to sex there are all kinds of differences... Often x, y, z are key to maintaining order, but ...
I do not mean to say that there are no actions that are criminal or that all acts are the same... just that we should be careful about behaviors we choose to categorize as criminals and which ones as normal.
Fascinating read, lots to ponder here about how traits/factors are measured and assessed and even how degrees of criminality are associated to other factors.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is one of my favourite theories of crime so I made it one of my very first newsletters. Eysenck's work is kinda fun, to be honest.
I have not read it, but will certainly have to explore it. One of the aspects regarding theories of crimes that I find fascinating is that they rarely explore the social construction of crime. That is, we find x, y, z, to be criminal so we need to think about why people do x, y, z... we do not need to think about a, b, c, because a, b, c, are what normal people do.
One could argue that certain acts are almost always seen as criminal, but I think that lacks nuance (i.e. killing someone in self defense is ok), taking property (but in Kiribati there is the bubuti system where you can essentially take what you need and cannot be refused); when it comes to sex there are all kinds of differences... Often x, y, z are key to maintaining order, but ...
I do not mean to say that there are no actions that are criminal or that all acts are the same... just that we should be careful about behaviors we choose to categorize as criminals and which ones as normal.