Assignment:
In your opinion, what is the purpose of studying crime? What are the goals of researching crime? Is it important for the students of criminal justice to know the foundations of research methods? Why? What factors limit our ability to study crime today? Will these limiting factors change over time? Why?
Will crime become easier or more difficult to explain in the future? Why? Is it possible to study criminology in a scientific manner similar to the way the hard sciences are studied? Why?