CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Demonology, Trepanning
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All office hours are held at the centre of criminology. There won"t be weekly office hours the idea that students don"t use ta hours for most weeks. Today, we"re going to focus on the foundational theories of crime causation: the theories that really kickstarted criminology as a major discipline . Methodological ways of obtaining data: ucr data, survey research. The classical school the founders: cesare beccaria, an italian philosopher, groundbraking manuscript entitled an essay on crime and. A sign of rationality is that it prevents crime, but criminals do adapt: ways of robbing house ringing doorbell, etc. Bc justice happens at a sluggish pace: in order to train someone, you must reward and punish asap, many people have argued that, under the current system, punishment takes place behind closed doors. In order for punishment to be more effective, we need to make the public more aware: having knowledge about what happens when you violate the law.