This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Goaded by these optimistic claims, I decided ...

A call for a multidisciplinary introductory social science course to familiarize undergraduates with the methods, theoretical frameworks, landmark studies and findings that have shaped our ...

Criminology has evolved from eighteenth-century notions of free will and proportional punishment to multi-disciplinary frameworks incorporating biology, psychology and sociology. Classical theories ...