Features of Positivist Criminology Positivist Criminology Uses
Discussion of positivist biology in connection to criminology. None of the positivist theories current then would be considered science now. All have been disproved as sham. There is continued limited research into genetic and psychological dispositions to crime but all of this is done under a very different scientific approach to that which was practice by the positivist school and, therefore, one can conclude that whilst scientific research into criminality is still functional and operational, scientific positivism has expired.
Its legacies, however, continue to determine that we focus on the study of the criminal not the crime. That we approach the subject from a methodological, scientific stance. That we look towards potential rehabilitation of the criminal. That we work on identifying crime pattern analysis and endeavor to work towards formulating crime reduction strategies. Finally, that we persist in conducting limited research into genetic and psychological disposition to crime.