Mooney, Jayne. 2000. Positivism: Scientific explanations of violence. InGender, violence and the social order. By Jayne Mooney, 35–65. London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI:10.1057/9780230597396_3 This book chapter provides a detailed description of positivism as a theory that attempted to explain viole...
Kyron Huigens asserts that such a republican theory of the criminal law stressing judgment and the good is plausible and necessary, both to explain the defenses and to describe the broader principles of blame and punishment in criminal justice. Huigens locates the elements of his theory in ...
Especially in the latter half of the 19th century, positivism had a considerable influence on the natural sciences and on the social sciences, including sociology, law, political economy, historiography, and literary theory and criticism. At the end of the 19th century, positivism went through a ...