Criminologists can benefit from questioning the underlying
assumptions upon which they rest their work. Philosophy has the
ability to clarify our thoughts, inform us of why we think about
things the way we do, solve contradictions in our thinking we never
knew existed, and even dissolve some dichotomies we thought were
cast in stone. One of those dichotomies is free will vs.
determinism. Criminology must reckon with both free will and
agency, as posited by some theories, and determinism, as posited by
others-including the ever more influential fields of genetics and
biosocial criminology. Criminological Theory: Assessing
Philosophical Assumptions examines philosophical concepts such as
these in the context of important criminological theories or issues
that are foundational but not generally considered in the
literature on this topic. The uniqueness of this treatment of
criminological theory is that rather than reporting what this
person or that has said about a particular theory, Walsh exposes
the philosophical assumptions underlying the theory. Students and
scholars learn to clarify their own biases and better analyze the
implications of a broad range of theories of crime and justice.
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