Jack Katz's Seduction of Crime

This paper is both my report and review of sociologist Jack Katz’s book, Seductions of Crime. I am quite fascinated with the ideas of criminology, so I found this book’s ideas and stories interesting. Katz uses much logic in trying to explain things that I can relate to, but in many instances it seems to come across to me as if he were trying to make excuses for the criminals he depicts. In …

…have like Katz to perhaps analyze some more famous killers such as Charles Manson. My only apparent criticism are that there are times where it seems that Katz is trying to explain the unexplainable or take the side of the criminal minded. There are so many things in criminology that can not and may never really be made clear. This is strong support why it is a still very new and “soft science”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**