CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Lombroso, Jeremy Bentham, Antisocial Personality Disorder
22 Sep 2016
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General (rather than individual) explanations of crime patterns. Theories should also be falsifiable we should be able to test or measure them: based on evidence, collect data, measurable. Confession of guilt, or proof of innocence, through inquisition, often involving torture. Physical torture as punishment for the few crimes that did not result in the death penalty. Torture was unfair confession might have nothing to do with innocence or guilt. If you were innocent, you were torture anyways; if you were guilty, you were tortured too, usually twice. The death penalty was used often at random. His ideas: the presumption of innocence, specific criminal codes, limitations on the severity of punishment, the duration of punishment as a more effective deterrent, public (visible) punishment as a more effective deterrent. Would employ a hedonistic calculus in deciding whether a certain action was more likely to result in pleasure than in pain.
