Advantages And Disadvantages Of Theoretical Integration

Bringing along its criticisms with its advantages, the theoretical integration model is considered as a contemporary development in criminological theorizing (Tibbetts, 2012). As researcher development an understanding how criminological theory of crime behavior, they recognized the lack of input from various disciplines, which needed improvement of the empirical validity of traditional theories. Meaning, until more recently most criminal justice professionals doe have not work or book knowledge of biology, psychology, anthropology, economics or biopsychological in relation to human behavior (Tibbetts, 2012). Because of these limitations, different forms of integrated integration theories were developed.
Three forms of theoretical integration are end-to-end, side-by-side, and up-and-down (2012). End-to-end theoretical integration proposes that one theory will present itself before or after another in temporal ordering of causal factors such as: weak social bond; negative peer association; and crime, which are sequential, based on the temporal ordering of two or more theories in terms of timing (Tibbetts, 2012). These theories are very similar to the theories social bonding, differential association, and
The conceptual integration uses the different terms of the theories used but uses of the meanings and operations similarly (Tibbetts, 2012). The results are to create a framework the help in understanding behavior by terms with similar issues. Another theory, theoretical elaboration allows theorist to add concepts from other theories that have not been fully developed (Tibbetts, 2012). Critics of the integrated theories argue that theorist need to take caution when developing these theories because of high potential of contradictory, creation of micro situational, pitting against one another, and lack of empirical validity (Tibbetts,