In my opinion the most meaningful guide to creating new criminal justice policies and practices is the positivist paradigm. This paradigm seem to be very open-minded and addresses many issues that may cause one to commit crime. As stated in our second week of class lecture this paradigm attempts to find facts or understanding through studies/measurements. In order for our criminal justice policies to be effective/worthwhile there is a need for criminologist and those of power to determine if particular policies should be implemented or discontinued. This paradigm also recognizes that there are factors outside of the offender’s control that can influence their criminal behavior (Cullen, Agnew, Wilcox, 2014). Over the past couple of weeks we
