_______ is the branch of social science that uses the scientific method of the natural sciences, and suggests that human behavior is a product of social, biological, psychological, or economic forces which can be empirically measured.

a. positivism
b. empirical criminology
c. critical criminology
d. classical criminology


Ans: a. positivism

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