Assignment task: Following a conference in Ottawa on criminological theories, a group of positivist theorists, including Lombroso, Binet, Shaw and Mackay, Sutherland, Durkheim, Merton, Cloward and Ohlin, and Hirschi, went on a sightseeing boat cruise on the Rideau Canal.
Their leisurely aquatic ride was interrupted when two other passengers started fighting.
One of them punched the other, who fell to the ground, unconscious.
After the incident, the aggressive passenger was charged and convicted of assault.
As their uOttawa Criminology-informed 'case worker', your role is to provide 'guidance' to this person with the aims of preventing recidivism specifically and of preventing harm generally.
Drawing on the analytical insights from Caputo and Hatt's (1996) four-quadrant model, Alinksy's parable, and the above-mentioned quotes by James, Karr and Cohen that you have learned about as a Criminology student at the University of Ottawa, answer the following questions:
(a) Which theories (covered in this course) would you use to inform your immediate "downstream" response? In your answer, be sure to clarify why you think they are downstream, yet why they may still be applicable in this case.