CRM 1301 Lecture 4: LECTURE FOUR

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: carolyngordon

Document Summary

Agree or disagree: offenders make choices about committing crimes based on anticipated rewards, classical crim theorists agree, get money, emotional satisfaction, thrill. Industrial revolution (1750-1850: idea that there was a shift from man creating everything, to machines and factories producing everything, moving from farms and rural areas to the big city, need new forms of social control in society. According to classical theorists, what would be the penal sanctions for homosexuality: there shouldn"t be any punishments/sanctions, the seriousness of crime is measured by the harm done to society. If there are no demonstrable victims, there should be no punishment. According to the demonic perspective: they would be looked at as a deviant or a sinner, there was no difference between a sinner and a criminal, all are blended together. God: all physical pain/torture/punishment, no written laws, no rights for the people, no focus on innocence, punishments were very public, to serve as a deterrent, entertainment.