CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bounded Rationality, Jeremy Bentham, Routine Activity Theory

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Neo-classical criminology = more general approach to crime + offending than classical, situations in which people make criminal decisions. Situational crime prevention & crime science": classical criminology. Enlightenment = a bunch of elitists started to question the foundation of social order, saying the best way to organize power/law/etc. is through rationality; bringing light to the truth of social institutions. A period in which people would increasingly become rational actors where everyone should have a chance at succeeding. Rational-legal authority = a critiques of the way in which punishment is used; the use of punishment should be guided by reason. Utilitarianism = what is just is that which generates the maximum amount of happiness at the lowest cost. All punishment should produce something useful for society. Nozick + huxley = experiencing sadness is important to humanity. Celerity = enlightening the vulgar ones , quick association of crime to punishment.

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