CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Cesare Beccaria, Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri
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Torture was unfair confession might have nothing to do with innocence or guilt. If you were innocent, you were tortured anyway; if you were guilty, you were tortured toom usually twice. If you were guilty, but were able to handle the torture and did not confess, you received the same punishment as someone who was innocent. The death penalty was inappropriate people gave up certain rights when they joined society, but they never agreed that the state should able to kill them- The duration of punishment as a more effective deterrent. Would employ a hedonistic calculus in deciding whether a certain action was more likely to result in pleasure than in pain. Used scientific methods to explain criminal behaviour. Behaviour of criminals was pre-determined by their genes or evolutionary condition. Involved notion of determinism , as opposed to free will or rational choice . Founded and most prominent member of the positive school.