The thread is now up for criminology, theory, law, and agencies classes. You may want to watch how it develops differently.
Example is person steals food to feed family, it is semi-acceptable because the family needs to eat.
Okay, I read the defenition in the back of Arrigo and it says that everything can be identified or controlled with scientific exactness or precision. We went over this more in the crim class than law class. By borrowing from biology they were considered positivists. This question we really haven't gone over in the law class. It's a challenge for you two to attempt to tackle.