August Comte and the Positivist Theory

Since the beginning of m society has always dealt with the issues of hatred whether it was murder, rape, theft, etc. As the humankind continued to modernize some scientist began to create theories on wherefore they believed evil occurred. One passing popular theory was the positive Theory. The plus theory was before proposed by August Comte in the mid 1800s. It focal pointed earlier on the use of empirical, or scientific investigation for the progress of society. Three basic principles shag the theory were measurement, objectivity, and causality. How criminologist viewed it focused on a few early(a) key points though. \nCriminologist emphasized that as electropositives they had to have a consensus worldview. conceive the theory as a deterministic model, and having faith in the scientific model it was found on. Criminological positivists wanted to focus on the criminal fraud rather than the act. They also believed in rehabilitation rather than punishment when using t his approach to crime. Applying the scientific method, discovering and diagnosing the sickness, and treating the individual or individuals were the key components of this theory in relation to crime. \nBefore the positivist theory came to be there were several precursors that helped with the victimization of the model. astronomy helped relate human demeanor to the alignment of the stars, phrenology helped determine how intelligence service related to the size and convention of the skull, and several other precursors helped with the development of the new positivist theory. The positivist theory could be unwrap into three different categories biologic its largest part, sociological, and psychological. Multiple scientists from Ernest Hooton, William Sheldon, and Robert Dugsdale studied biological positivism. Robert Dugsdale proposed that crime was hereditary; William Sheldon proposed that crime and problems at youth were connected, and Ernest Hooton proposed that somatic infer iority and c...