Reading Assignment #1

Chapter 1 (The Expansion of Criminological Theory

Deliverable Length: 3 pages

Due: Sunday, January 30 

Answer any two questions:

1.  Compare and contrast the sociological (Mills) and criminological (Williams) imaginations.

2.  Why do you think social science and criminological theories are less successful and prediction and focus more on description and low-level explanation?

3.   List and discuss any three of the six questions the text presents to guide theoretical analysis.