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- the emergence of positivist crim
- positivism: method of analysis based on the collection of observable scientific facts
- positivist criminology: search for uniformities in the area of crime / criminal justice
- movement away from French feudal society
- aim: moral reformation through deprivation of liberty and the prevention of crime through deterrence
- prisons had failed to regulate the conduct of “dangerous crimes”
- working class, unemployed, and unemployable (posed a threat to law and order)
- Adolphe Quetelet
- social mechanics
- young males, the poor, and those with bad / no jobs were more likely to commit and be convicted of crimes
- crime has three chief causes
- accidental: wars, famines, natural disaster
- variable: free will, personality
- constant: age, gender, occupation
- society itself causes crime
- unhealthy morality was a biological thing and people with bad morals had high criminal propensities
- criminal anthropology
- Cesare Lombroso
- born criminal
- scientific criminology had to be based on an analysis of the individual criminal
- examined skulls of delinquent corpses
- similar to the insane, American blacks, Mongolian races, and prehistoric man
- Charles Goring
- social action is inherited and those with a genealogically deviant inheritance would be unable to adapt to social life
- eugenics
- positive: middle and upper classes should be provided with incentive to reproduce
- negative: social undesirables should be isolated, sterilized, and castrated
- adverse environmental conditions and mental defectiveness caused recidivism
- sociological facts and mental capacities were independent of each other
- defective qualities of individuals in a given species weren’t influenced by social environment
- neoclassical criminology
- decreased (?) classical (gabriel tarde)
- individuals should be accountable for their actions whether or not they have free will
- many classical legal reforms were impractical
- individuals are unique and shouldn’t be subjected to uniformity of treatment
- decreased positivism (gabriel tarde)
- based in determinism, so if crimes were truly out of their control, rehabilitation wouldn’t work
- resulted from leniency from prosecutors
- neoclassical compromises
- an offender’s character is open to analysis
- punishment should fit the crime - imprisonment should be mainform
- treatment of criminal should be individualized
- punishment should also include deterrents
- death penalty should be abolished
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