SOC 227 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Extenuating Circumstances, Criminal Record, Parricide
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Classical school (as in the first ): one of the first to develop an organized perspective of crime s nature. 1764: on crime and punishment (with assistance of allesandro and pietro verri) Praised by catherine the great, william blackstone, thomas jefferson, john adams. Let us break these bonds, fatal to the majority and useful to a few indolent tyrants, let us attack the injustice at its source. Laws should be published so people will know what they are. Capital punishment should be abolished and replaced with imprisonment. People should be tried by a jury of his/her peers. Where class differences exist between offender/victim, one-half jury; from the class of the offender, one half from the class of the victim: no person treated as an exemption. Beccaria"s ideas: provided basis for french penal code of 1791. How well would our present system fulfill beccaria s proposals: crime funnel / crime net .
