NOTES ON THE DIFFICULTIES IN DETERMINING THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF CRIMINOLOGY

Published 2023-06-09
Section Derecho

Authors

  • Sebastián Alonso Agüero San Juan Universidad Pompeu Fabra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7770/rchdcp-V1N2-art16

Keywords:

criminology, pseudoscience, scientific disciplines

Abstract

This article sets an overview of the problems with prosecuting criminology as a science. We review the criteria normally used to assign the label of ‘sci-ence’ to a particular discipline and concludes with a proposal for manage-ment of these criteria.