When crimes are committed, people perceive each crime differently and tend to add their opinion on how the criminal(s) should be treated. One crime, for example, had Tyrone Hood charged with the killing and robbing of a college student. The positivist theory helps understand why Tyrone Hood committed this crime and should go to trial, but be rehabilitated instead of being incarcerated based on the crime. The positivist theory is known as the, “...scientific method to the study of the criminal” (Cullen, 2013, p.7). This means that the theory focuses more on the criminal and their history rather than the crime committed. In the Tyrone Hood case, the police discovered clothes, a few hundred dollars and the victim’s class ring were missing
