PFP 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Determinism, Giambattista Della Porta, Émile Durkheim
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Based on the assumption that people choose to commit crimes after weighing the consequences of their actions. Grew out of a reaction against barbaric system of law, punishment and justice that existed before the french revolution. Prior to that time, there was no real system of criminal justice in europe only crime against that state the church and the crown. From the 14th to the 17th centuries, the core of government in europe was the. Criminal law did not exist and punishments were arbitrarily determined. During this time the witch craze occurred due to the vagueness of the criminal law. One of the founders of the classical school and the father of criminology. On crime and punishment: outlined an enlightened criminal justice system to serve the people and not the monarchy. According to beccaria, the crime problem could be traced not too bad people but to bad laws.
