CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Environmental Factor, Physiognomy, Characterology
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Mostly concerned with question of governance and government. A vision of prisoner rights to the prisons. Major contribution was to argue that fundamentally individuals are rational people, we input competing narrative norms and issues in society and we work those out on our pursuit of pleasure. Humans are rationale explained why crime was happening in the urban environment because people could get away wit it so they did it. Criminal activity is rational and needs to be governed on rationale responses. Presenting an understanding of crime is something that we need to govern rationally. Neo classical: fair treatments of punishment for a certain amount of time. Emile durkheim (sociologist) liberal social progress :one of the first to bring together a social structural theory on crime crime is apart of society and normal to the function of society. 2- brings law abiding publics together arguing that most people are good natured.