SOC-2107 Lecture 3: Reviewing Theories: Positivism

• School: University of Winnipeg
• Department: SOCIOLOGY
• Course: SOC-2107
• Professor: C. Goff

Document Summary

Positivism is still prominent in todays time, however, we will review the beginning of this approach, which is not as relevant to todays time: there was a decline and criticism of the classical school. Lombroso, on the criminal man 1876, revolutionized criminology, as he focused on the change of positivism and developing it. Punishments should outweigh the costs, and to do that you must eliminate and nd the factors of crime. The elimination of judicial opinion, by creating equality, through the idea of certain punishment ie) if you beak the law, and someone else does as well you each go to jail, for the same amount of times. People questioned the amount of power that judges have. Institutions were rarely agreed upon normally due to cultural perspectives;