CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cesare Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte
18 May 2013
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The classical school, the positive school, and mile durkheim. Many of the past and present ideas in criminology came from the field of sociology: example, mile durkheim"s work on social solidarity. Until recently, criminology was a sub-discipline of sociology, and was usually subsumed under the sociology department. The intellectual, philosophical, and historical roots of sociology are similar to the intellectual, philosophical, and historical roots of criminology. Both disciplines are social sciences and quite new, and have their origins in the enlightenment, as known as the age of reason: period from 1689 to 1789 (began with english revolution, ended with french. During, focus on critical examination of human life, religious beliefs, and society in general. Intellectual movement involving philosophers, political reformers, social theorists, and religious skeptics. More of an emphasis on reason, science, rationality and empiricism. Regarded as the founder of the sociology of knowledge. Studied social facts, social institutions, different types of societies throughout history.
