SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Anomie, Jeremy Bentham
22 Oct 2013
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Internal causes : psychological (character flaw), physiological (physical flaw), genetics (passed down by parents) Can someone be cured? (ex: resessivegene therapy: group association, the objective-subjective debate, objective: behaviour is real (can be measured prostitution, how are cops, pimps involved?, subjective: behaviour is constructed, the classical school of criminology (1680-1800) Authority of judges: evidence and forms of judgment, punishment as a deterrent. Certainty: the death penalty: potential problems, other ideas, jeremy bentham (1748 1832) London: book: principles of morals and legislation , similarities with beccaria. Punishment as a deterrent: panopticon concept. Soc 2700: history of crime, part two the positivist school : the positivist school of criminology, early goals, rise of statistics, august comte (1798-1857, founder of sociology: a science, prediction of behaviour is the goal. Emile durkheim (1858-1917: rejects biology and psychology, social facts are explained by social facts (ex: smaller cities know everyone, larger cities not really)
