CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Differential Association, White-Collar Crime, Cesare Beccaria
4 Apr 2016
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Central idea: must protect rights of individuals vs. corrupt and arbitrary government and laws. The impact of classicism: fewer arbitrary and brutal punishments (in the 50 years ater beccaria"s book, number of capital ofences in england fell from 200 to 10, idea of equality introduced to the law. Originated in the 1800"s with the italian school of criminal anthropology. Aimed to transform criminology into a penal science. Efort to discover the natural/physical laws of that lay behind crime and punishment. Inluenced by the rise of science (especially darwinism) Refocused criminology from criminal behaviours (classicism) to the individual. Cesare lombroso"s l"uomo deliquente: noion of the atavisic criminal . Large jaw, high cheek bones, thick brows, a craving for evil. The desire not only to exinguish life in the vicim, but to muilate the corpse, tear its lesh and drink its blood . Belief in disinct diferences (physical and other) between criminals and non- Sheldon"s somatotypes (body types to determine criminals: endomorph.
