SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Darwinism, Offender Profiling, Class Discrimination
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Criminology (schissel)- consensus research on who the criminal is , policy/governmental research. Executing a perfect justice system or improving it from what it is now and get people to be law abiding (discourage people from going against the law) Criminology as a science that could solve the problem of crime. Belief there is agreement on what a criminal is. Power differential- street vs. non-street crime that is examined and studied. Enlightenment ideals; european phenomenon that things can be done rationally and you can approach problems rationally (time of beccaria writing) Idea that you can map out human behavior using mathematical models. Idea that we all have free will and we choose what we do attainable: protest piece- trials by ordeal. **beccaria difference between criminal and non-criminal: grey area between them; commit a crime if it is in our best interest to do so.
