CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Enrico Ferri, Atavist, Atavism
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The most significant difference between the classical school and the positivist school is the latter"s search for empirical facts to confirm the idea that crime was determined by multiple factors. Beccaria and bentham: thought that crime resulted from the free will and hedonism of the in- dividual criminal. The 19th century"s first positivist wanted scientific proof that crime was caused by features within the individual. They primarily emphasized the mind and the body of the criminal, to some extent neglecting social factors external to the individual. Connected to the body through the ideas of beauty and ugliness to good and evil behaviour. The birth of the positivist school: lombroso"s theory of the criminal man. Cesare ombroso (1835-1909), an italian who often is called the father of modern criminolo- gy . What sort of creatures are humans? had begun to depart from theological answers to an- swers provided by the objective sciences, particularly biology.
