Reconciling Structural and Subjective Approaches to the Study of Crime

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Abstract
This article attempts to reconcile structural and subjective approaches to the study of crime. Materials supporting reconciliation include (a) a review of the broader traditions from which structuralism and subjectivism emerged, (b) an assessment of the strengths and limitations of structuralism and subjectivism, (c) arguments supporting the desirability of a combined structural/subjective approach, and (d) an analysis of structuralism and subjectivism as they appear in the 1988 book by Jack Katz, titled Seductions of Crime.