SOCI 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Lombroso, Jeremy Bentham, Pillory
2 Feb 2017
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Free will directs their course of actions. Free will do not allow for excuses. When you commit an offence, you did so knowingly and therefore there are no excuses. A lot of people who were mentally ill were executed. Developed the classical approach of criminology (classical school) Premise led the way to changes to the approach in criminal justice. Put forth the notion of the pleasure and pain principle. Enrico ferry published the first book on criminal sociology. Italians were most influential in terms of criminal law. 6 major differences in classical and positivists (radicalism vs. determinism: classical school focused on the crime - commit the crime, go to jail positive focused on the criminal interested in knowing background, history, circumstances. Our criminal code largely inherited classical school of thought. Canada bought into james stephens criminal code. Ja(cid:373)es" so(cid:374) was a suspe(cid:272)t i(cid:374) the ja(cid:272)k the ripper case. Criminal code has all sorts of problems.
