Sociology 2266A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Totalitarianism, Auguste Comte, Syphilis
3 Nov 2016
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Chapter 5 major schools of modern criminological thought. Classical school of criminology a perspective premised on the belief that potential criminals, as rational beings capable of free will, will be deterred by the threat of swift, severe punishment. Emerged in response to the harsh nature of punishments inflicted on criminals in. Justice often amounted to little more than private vengeance and punishments of torture. Renaissance brought the spread of more rational, scientific and humanistic ways of thinking. Cesare beccaria challenged the concepts of justice at the time. Argued that most potential offenders would be deterred if 3 conditions were met: certainty of punishment, swiftness of justice, fair penalties proportionate to the severity of the social harm done. His doctrine is characterized by 4 general principles: equality: All offenders must be treated equally without consideration of personal character or motive guilt had been determined: utilitarianism done to society and not by the sensibility of the criminal, liberty:
