BAD SCHOLARSHIP, WEIRD BELIEFS AND STRANGELY UNEXPLORED AREAS OF RESEARCH
Identifying strangely neglected areas of research, understanding why orthodox research scholarship and 'knowledge' becomes lopsided, revealing and understanding the reasons for the creation, dissemination and widespread belief in academic and policy oriented research frauds, lies, deceptions, hoaxes, fallacies, myths, braced myths, errors and irrational policymaking.
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Opportunity Does Not Explain Crime
Being impossible to refute and easy to vary, opportunity is a very bad explanation for crime. Read about Laycock's Mistake here: http://www.bestthinking.com/articles/science/applied_science/opportunity-is-a-very-bad-explanation-for-crime-a-critique-of-crime-science-s-dependence-upon-it
Labels:
Causality,
Crime Science,
Laycock's Mistake,
Opportunity
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