SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cesare Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham, Neighborhood Watch

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Demons, evil spirits cause crime (evil spirits had possessed the person. Magna carta - foundation of modern laws and procedures (canada / Hobbes & locke to force them to perform a crime) Humans are blank slates (tabula raza: latin term) we are. Free will and rational thought prevalent (you as individual has the choice to be here or the freewill not to engage in a crime) people are self determining. Idea of social contract: laws are the conditions under which independent and isolated men united to form a society (beccaria, Punishment should be deterrence rather than retribution; crime. General - consequence directed at individual but designed to. Celerity speed (closer to the act, better the result) Certainty - always will happen when act committed (we are sure. Severity - amount of pain inflicted should be proportionate to that when the act is committed, you will be punished) crime (punishment equal to what the crime is)