SOCI 3810 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dangerous Offender, Retributive Justice, Classical Liberalism
18 Apr 2016
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The classical theories of criminology emerged during the enlightenment period of the late 17 th and. 18th century europe, and established the criminal as a calculaing, raional-pleasure seeking being who exercised free will. In the late 19th century, criminological posiivism emerged cesare lombroso, and seeked to pathologize, and individualize crime whilst making it quaniiable. The idea is to prevent crime before it occurs, to rehabilitate, and cure individuals that are inclined to commit crimes. The focus is on rehabilitaion and prevenion rather than punishment, since the individual is not acing out of free will as classical theorists would hold. Despite being disproved by sociologists, theories that take from posiivism remain popular in the media and in hard criminological approaches, such as biosocial or neuropsychological approaches to studying crime. Even today, the body coninues to be seen as an object of risk to be managed (horn, 2003, 191), and remains popular likely because of its simplisic appeal.
