Social Science, Criminology and Psychiatry

Psychiatry and Criminology

Situational logic in social science inquiry: From economics to criminology

Karl R. Popper proposed that the method of explanation in economics, or situational logic, should become the general model for analyses across the social sciences. This article makes good Popper’s proposal by extending situational logic to a social problem outside the traditional scope of economics: crime. Specifically, the discussion reviews models developed by economist Gary S. Becker and cri...

Science and Psychiatry

more satisfactory treatment than actual psychiatric illness. In fact, this is probably the best short description available of recent scientific progress in mental subnormality, as well as providing the essential facts of these conditions. As would be expected, the book has a strong ideological standpoint, which causes the influence of heredity to be greatly devalued, compared with that of envi...

Social Psychiatry

Social Psychiatry

Although the re-actions of the individual psychiatric patient to groups have been noted and used for generations, curiously little attention has been paid to the possibilities of treatment in groups until the latter end of the war. At this time various experiments were carried out in Britain, in both military and civil hospitals. At the same time comparable work was going on in the United State...