2.3.2.4 - Freud

• Freud was the first to suggest the importance of childhood (Blackburn, 1993) and adolescence (Hollin, 1989)
• Freud has major influence on research in criminological theories
• Freud dtarted to focus theorists on childhood influences and their importance
• Freud's theories are no longer accepted because there is no experimental way to prove it right or wrong
• Freud's theories can only explain behaviour after it's happened
• Freud's experiment is qualitative
• Freud's psychodynamic theory was used for therapy and was never successful