Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Beer Street And Gin Lane, Rational Agent, Philosophes
16 Nov 2012
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Stuff that came out of this period are still used in law today: people had started seeing more of the world, changed ideologies in the world, the deviant is a rational actor not someone who is possessed. This took like fucking forever to come about. Deviance: the behaviour that eroded the greater good of society. Torture became futile didn"t fix anything. Deterrence was emerging as the new way to control deviance: swift and severe punishment through court. The cost (punishment) of deviance was higher than the personal gain someone would gain from being deviant. Punishments would also fit the crime, wouldn"t be too cruel. The accused wouldn"t be all alone either they"d have some support. The classical paradigm: rational, hedonistic actor with free will, perception of opportunity, assessment of risk, do i conform or go against the grain. [there"s a chart on the internet comparing the two years add it here]
