CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Enrico Ferri, Atavism, Atavist
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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 multi- ple factors. Beccaria and bentham: thought that crime resulted from the free will and hedonism of the individual criminal. The 19th century"s first positivist wanted scientific proof that crime was caused by fea- tures within the individual. They primarily emphasized the mind and the body of the criminal, to some extent ne- glecting social factors external to the individual. Connected to the body through the ideas of beauty and ugliness to good and evil behav- iour. 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 crimi- nology . What sort of creatures are humans? had begun to depart from theological answers to answers provided by the objective sciences, particularly biology.
