The Positivist School was founded by Cesare Lombroso and led by two others: Enrico Ferri and Raffaele Garofalo. In criminology, it has attempted to find...

His school of sociological positivism holds that society, like the physical world, operates according to general laws. After Comte, positivist schools arose...

and the development of the legal system in the United States. The Positivist school argues criminal behaviour comes from internal and external factors...

legal positivist theory, empiricism provided the theoretical basis for such developments to occur. Some of the most prominent legal positivist writers...

philosophy into "scientific philosophy", which, according to the logical positivists, ought to share the bases and structures of empirical sciences' best...

from his predecessor and rival, Cesare Beccaria, by depicting his positivist school in opposition to Beccaria's classist one (which centred around the...

same basic principles at its core. Simply put, positivists see sociology as a science, while anti-positivists do not. The antipositivist tradition continued...

the domains such as the law of the sea and commercial treaties. The positivist school grew more popular as it reflected accepted views of state sovereignty...

accused structuralists like Foucault of being positivists; Foucault, while not an ordinary positivist per se, paradoxically uses the tools of science...

philosophy, social sciences, and various models of scientific inquiry. While positivists emphasize independence between the researcher and the researched person...

has a similar concept. Precrime in criminology dates back to the positivist school in the late 19th century, especially to Cesare Lombroso's idea that...

management science, communication science, psychology and political science. Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those used in the natural sciences...

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and school cultures. The belief is that students are signaled by disorder or rule-breaking and that they in turn imitate the disorder. Several school movements...

sociological paradigm Legal positivism, a school of thought in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law Positivist school (criminology), attempts to find scientific...

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society and persons' perceptions of them. Learning Theory is considered a positivist approach because it focuses on specific acts, opposed to the more subjective...

Declinations Legal positivism Logical positivism / analytic philosophy Positivist school Postpositivism Sociological positivism Machian positivism (empirio-criticism)...

immediately, from this original." But John Austin (1790–1859), an early positivist, applied utilitarianism in accepting the calculating nature of human beings...

to be prosecuted. Jean-Loup Richet, a professor at the Sorbonne Business School, classified the large variety of ad-frauds committed by cybercriminals into...

modern discipline of international law, especially the hard legal positivist school of thought. His two-volume International Law: A Treatise has influenced...

overlay other datasets such as census demographics, locations of pawn shops, schools, etc., to better understand the underlying causes of crime and help law...

Declinations Legal positivism Logical positivism / analytic philosophy Positivist school Postpositivism Sociological positivism Machian positivism (empirio-criticism)...

on people's cognitive behavior. It forms a part of criminology's Positivist School in that it applies the scientific method to examine the society that...

studying religious texts and Jewish law. In the Muslim world, madrasa schools were established and focused on Islamic law and Islamic philosophy. Many...

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Ethnography Uniform Crime Reports Crime mapping Positivist school Qualitative Quantitative BJS NIBRS Penology Schools Anarchist Chicago Classical Conflict Critical...

practices of punishment in less formal environments such as parenting, school and workplace correctional measures. Historical theories were based on the...

important figures in its history include Franz Brentano, the logical positivists (particularly Rudolf Carnap), the ordinary language philosophers, W....

epistemological consequences, seen most prominently in the works of the logical positivists. In particular, if the set of propositions which can only be known a...