Question

While developing theories criminal just need to be careful to avoid any confusion between correlation and ______.

Answer 1

Answer:

Causation.

Explanation:

Developing theories criminal addresses crimes and the relationship between them and their causes or correlations. But they must be careful to avoid confusion between these two, because causation shows that a crime is derived from a certain cause (it is a strict relationship between an action and its results), while correlation shows some connection between a crime and something.

For example, there might be a correlation between poverty and robbery, but poverty is not a causation of robbery, as there are riches that rob too and poor that will never rob.