SOCI 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Enrico Ferri, Sigmund Freud, Compurgation
11 Nov 2016
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Stressed the con ict between good and absolute evil: criminals are possessed by evil spirits, trial by battle, compurgation. Cannot be tested scienti cally: modern theories of crime and social order rely on explanations that are based on the physical world, natural explanations. Emphasizes on the individual criminal as a person who is capable of calculating what he/ she wants to do. Searched for empirical facts to con rm that crime was determined by multiple factors. Lombroso -- criminals represent a form of degeneracy that was manifested in physical characteristics re ective of earlier forms of evolution. Sigmund freud -- all behavior is motivated and purposeful: crime is a symbolic expression of inner tensions that each person has but fails to control. The consequence of theory: policy implications: most positivists focused on individual as the explanation of behavior (social darwinism) elimination of certain criminal offenders to prevent additional biologically determined harm: treatment-necessary penology.
