Positivist thinkers are of the opinion that improving the behavior of the individual is possible only by recognizing the roots of the criminal conduct, and then separating those roots. Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) is the father of criminology, and he thought of people who committed crimes as savages; criminals were people who had inclinations more in keeping with what searchers of the time thought about our ancestral qualities. Notwithstanding, research has advanced, and now social process theories tend to look more solid to modern students of the criminal justice
Positivist thinkers are of the opinion that improving the behavior of the individual is possible only by recognizing the roots of the criminal conduct, and then separating those roots. Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) is the father of criminology, and he thought of people who committed crimes as savages; criminals were people who had inclinations more in keeping with what searchers of the time thought about our ancestral qualities. Notwithstanding, research has advanced, and now social process theories tend to look more solid to modern students of the criminal justice