SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cesare Lombroso, Cesare Beccaria, Vehicle Insurance
9 Oct 2018
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Sutherland and cressy (1960): very (cid:271)road ra(cid:374)ge of (cid:449)hat is (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al(cid:863, criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. Classical criminology: theoretical examination of crime begins in the 1700s, cesare beccaria: Italian scholar: people want to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, crime is a matter of pleasure vs. pain. Prisons as pain introduced to control crime: does potential gain outweigh the pain, risk vs. reward calculation happening in head of criminal. Friday, november 3, 2017: the more severe, certain, and swift the punishment, the better able it is to control criminal behaviour, by e(cid:374)suri(cid:374)g these thi(cid:374)gs, that"s the (cid:271)est (cid:449)ay to (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)ality (according to. Positivist criminology: positivism (i. e. scientific methods) began spreading from the mid 18th century onward, cesare lombroso (italian physician) became one of the most influential researchers in this area. Lombroso argued individuals were born criminal: heredity creates crime genes determining whether or not you are a criminal.
