CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Somatotype And Constitutional Psychology, Compulsory Sterilization, Mental Age
7 Nov 2017
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Social control: those who were not following dominant faith with seen to be weaker. Supernatural: doing crimes because they are weakened and possessed by evil spirits. Over 5000 people killed due to witchcraft (criminal behaviour) Target population: specifically women- independent, living alone women typically charged due to not relying on men. Punishment: extreme forms of torture, pulling on ligaments, drowning, etc. Did not matter if they were not guilty there was no going back once being charged. The revolution= change in thought on how criminal behaviour is thought of. Age of reason, no longer based on superstition. People behaved in rationality; if someone wants to commit a crime it is because they chose to by themselves. Beccaria (1764) essay on crime and punishment. Humanitarian concern, new system where torture is not used. Ex: robbery v. s murder: seriousness of offense fitting punishment. Social contract: fitting a system of official law, inscribed within the law.
