 | Chapter Objectives
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After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Define criminological theory.
- State the causes of crime according to classical and neoclassical criminologists.
- Describe the biological theories of crime causation and their policy implications.
- Describe the different psychological theories of crime causation.
- Explain sociological theories of crime causation.
- Distinguish major differences among classical, positivist, and critical theories of crime causation.
- Describe how critical theorists would explain the causes of crime.
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