Fitting the facts of crime: an invitation to biopsychosocial criminology

Abstract

The cognitive blindness inherent in the specialization of scientific fields is parthicularly common in the social sciences. For advancement in some scientific areas, knowledge from different disciplines needs to be increased and combined. Criminology requires the synthesis of the greatest amount of knowledge due to the fact that it draws on sociology, psychology, anthropology, chemistry, and social architecture. It requires knowledge of everything concerned with urban life and constant updating with respect to social change. Chad Posick, Michael Rocque, and J. C. Barnes, in their book Fittting the Facts of Crime: An Invitation to Biopsychosocial Criminology, present a biopsychosocial perspective to explain common findings in criminology and to guide new research and public policy. The main contribution of the book is to adapt some of the facts of criminology that have been accepted for more or less 30 years to the present day.