CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Beccaria, Scientific Revolution, Age Of Enlightenment

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Elizabeth Nisbet

Document Summary

Necessity- they may need something like basic human needs. They feel like they can get away with it. A genetic component that may make you. My opinion, we can"t completely prevent crime but we already have implemented many strategies to reduce the crime rate. Theories of crime inspired by religious beliefs and superstition. Ignoring problems with social structures, elites, and poverty, insteading causing everyone to focus on individuals instead of the bigger picture. It diverted the attention from the system and elites. Half a million death in 300 years. 85% of executed were women, independent and older women. Scientific revolution caused a change in thinking. Naturalistic explanation based on reason and scientific method. Criticized the cruelty, inhumanity, and arbitrariness of the current justice system. Helped focus the movement for humanitarian reform in europe. Roots of classical theory lie in the enlightenment- People voluntary enter a social contract with the state: Give up some freedom for a safer society.