SOCI-224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cesare Beccaria, Ten Commandments, Deterrence Theory
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Temptation (people who succumb are weak and inferior beings. Misfortunes a result from their own moral failures, threat of sever punishment,) and possession. They have giving into and became tempted by the devil and are week. Or they have been possessed by the devil and it"s really the devil that is acting out. Those that have been possessed have to drive the devil out; to do so is make this uncomfortable for the devil to leave (considerable pain and suffering before death). Committing a crime against gods law (ten commandments). Period of the rise of the inquisition (the dark ages), directed at obtaining confessions from witches" and burning them at the stake. Focused on women who were outside the protection of men were highly considered to be charged for witchcraft. The age of reason had a movement to moving away from looking for supernatural causes for everything that happened, instead looking at scientific reasons (what is observable).
