CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jeremy Bentham, French Revolution, Mercantilism
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Chapter 2 classical theory (cid:498)foundation of the contemporary criminal justice and legal systems were laid time in europe. (cid:499) p, 24, down in the 18th century. This was the period when the basic principles and practices of classical theory were developed and institutionalized for the first. We need to understand the classical theory in the context of social change at the time. Classical conception of law and criminal justice is underpinned by the transition from feudalism to capitalism; essentially social changes were effecting revolutions at two levels: economic and political. In the economic sphere, economies shifted from agriculture to commercial market economies, and subsequently to industrial economies. In the political sphere, the property owning class or capitalist class challenged the authority of the landed aristocracy. System of feudalism was as such that land, wealth and power were largely in the hands of those who owned land the landed aristocracy: they were a minority.
