Description
Criminology is a multidisciplinary field. Today, you can find criminologists amongst sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, geographers, political scientists, philosophers, lawyers, city planners, economists, and even architects. Where some see a great strength in numbers, others point to the inherent communication problem when trying to share findings and theories. While proliferation of theories of crime causation continues, some theorists have called for a need to resolve criminology’s theoretical crisis. In this talk, I explain how evolutionary criminology can become a tool that can help us in the monumental task of sifting through hundreds of theories of crime causation. Evolutionary theory offers unique insights about the nature of human behaviour and predispositions through which we organise our society. As a result, not only can it add an additional level of analysis to our existing understanding of etiology of crime, it can also help us unify existing theories as well as falsify the explanations that no longer serve the field. In this talk, I explain how evolutionary criminology can serve the field as well as offer an example of how we can use evolutionary frameworks to come up with theories of offending.| Period | 7 Sept 2023 |
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| Event title | European Society of Criminology Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Florence, ItalyShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |