CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Anthropological Criminology, Auguste Comte, Criminal Type
17 Mar 2013
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Credited as being the father of positivism. Predicting human behaviour, fact based (empirical foundation), calculations and measurements, objective and value-free science, etc. (see slides) So that criminology is not associated with criminal anthropology. The term criminology has been credited to garofalo. Advocate for incapacitation for those who are beyond rehabilitation. Some try to convince the law that there is no free will. Assault on classical criminology from positivism (pg. There was a criticism from the scientific views, saying that they have discovered the truth about criminals and so it makes no sense that criminals are governed by free will. Project to gain knowledge of the inside of man by looking at the outside. Deducing personality traits based on facial features. Learn from what is visible about what is not visible. Spurzheim identified 30 organs of the brain. The more the organ is active, the bigger it is size reflects activity and therefore it will shape the skull.
