Description
Chapter 15 tackles the subject of “integrating theories”. Your task in this paper is to make an argument for integrating two or more theories into one approach to understanding crime. We have discussed the weaknesses and limitations of all of the theories we have studied, so now is your chance to put theories together that overcome these problems or that offer a more valid/reliable/useful/practical way to understand crime.
Your paper must do the following:
- One of the theories must be a critical theory from chapters 10–13 (pluralism, marxist theory, feminist theory, radical crim., or cultural crim.) You can choose any other theory or theories from the textbook (e.g. it’s fine to combine feminist theory, strain theory, and rational choice, for example).
- Explain how the theories will be integrated by using concepts from Chapter 15 (for example, conceptual integration and propositional integration)
- Demonstrate the empirical validity of your integrated theoretical perspective by applying it to one contemporary crime-related problem of your choice.
Sample Solution
