CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Victimology, Racialization, Cesare Beccaria
11 Mar 2016
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To explain crime and causes of crime. Circumstances and contexts of crime: economic, cultural, political, social. Think about responses to crime: punishment, (alternatives to) prison systems. Cesare beccaria: italian philosopher: social contract theory: punishment outweigh crime. Kraft-ebing: german psychiatrist research on sexual deviation. Cesare lombroso: italian anthropologist: criminals have physical anomalies. Emile durkheim: french sociologist: criminals are socially alienated from society. To reform the penal system that was perceived as: cruel, inhumane, arbitrary. Mercantilism: colonial expansion to access raw materials to feed european early industrialization and markets. Merchant class influenced politics and law making. Women unmarried and independent (constructed as witches), The unruly: non-compliant with feudal rules or religious moral values. Picture: the breaking wheel - (europe 19th century) Picture: immurement - (roman catholic nuns 19th century) 17th to 18th century, revolution (e. g. french revolution 1789): change in the art of governing. The idea king and church as authority.
