CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cesare Beccaria, Cesare Lombroso, Auguste Comte
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Chapter 1: concepts of crime, law and criminology. Body of knowledge regarding crime, social phenomenon, making/breaking laws and the development and process of law and knowledge of law. Studies criminal behaviour: causes, patterns and control. Interdisciplinary: sociology, psychology, poly science, economics, etc. : violates social norms (social control: social harm. A) very harmful, b) somewhat harmful, c) little harm: severity. A) severe, b) moderate, c) mild: agreement. A) high, b) high disagreement, c) confusion/apathy. Murder, rape, robbery: consensus crime, conflict crime, social deviance, social diversions: Criminal justice system: police courts corrections. 1700 a. d: deviance attributed to supernatural forces, crime: witchcraft and demonic possession. Cesare beccaria (1738-1794: crime and punishment, utilitarianism: People have free will, severe punishment, eye for eye. Auguste comte (1798-1857: father of sociology, positivism: Cesare lombroso (1835-1909: father of criminology, criminal anthropology studied the born criminal . Social statistics on crime factors (age, race, sex, climate, poverty: emile durkheim (1858-1917)
