Understanding Criminal Behavior: Insights from Sociological Positivism

Week 2:
Online
Activity
The online activity of the week two raised some questions in mind.
Criminals are different from regular people, but why they are different?
How can we identify criminal tendencies in a common person and detect
the criminal in him? The definition of the deviance gave me the answer. I
also figured out that the social fabric of a place has a lot to do with the
criminal tendencies. Here I also discovered that certain theories can help
us in understanding the nature of the crime and more precisely we can
study the criminal behaviour of the individual and figure out the criminal
tendencies in them (Anderson, 2014) .
Week 3 -
Online
Activity
Crime in Western Sydney was an issue that I encountered briefly in the
previous week. In the current week, I discovered that according to the crime
related data released by the authorities, every nine victims out of ten in
Sydney becomes a victim of crime in the suburban areas of the western
Sydney. Was it happening because of the personal reasons of the individuals
or we can hold social disorganization responsible for this? I learned that social
disorganization acts as a catalyst in increasing the intensity of the criminal
behaviors in an individual. My conclusion was simple, sociological positivism
has a role to play in the criminal behavior of an individual.
Week 4 -
Online
Activity
The online assignment of week 4 taught me that history has all the
answers ready if you can connect it with the present scenarios. Riots in
London can be seen from the perspective of the social status and class
wars prevailing in the USA during 1930. The common thread is the
structural stain as described in Merton’s theory. The search for an apt
piece of literature to explain the riots was my biggest achievement of the