CRM 302 Lecture Notes - Jeremy Bentham, Bloody Code, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5 Apr 2013
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Early explanations for deviant/criminal behaviour included supernatural explanations such as demonic forces, where crimes were committed by the devil"s minions . Most commonly persuaded by (a) temptation or (b) possession. For most of history (up to the 1700s) there was very little discussion of crime, transgressive/criminal behaviours. Solutions included: (a) punishing them severely and (b) banishing them, essentially sentencing them to death in harsh conditions. Intellectual movements in europe throughout the 18th century (the intellectual cultural transformation) led to the emergence of school of thought which focused on legal processes and law-making (the primary focus of classical criminology) populations. Theory is a cultural production, it is infinitely influenced by the environment the creator of the theory lives in (political, economic, environmental factors play a part) Not about bad behaviour, but now about lawmaking, what business or politics of governing. During the 1700s in europe there was considerable social change.
