CRIM 1650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Treatment As Prevention, Scientific Method, Positivism

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: Danny O' Rourke

Document Summary

All people are motivated by pain and pleasure. Crime must be considered an injury to society. Punishment is justified only on the grounds that it prevents further criminal conduct. For beccaria, bad laws made for bad people. Too many laws that are inconsistently applied/enforced encourage criminal (reasonable/hedonistic) behaviour. 1) the born criminal (atavism as the by- product of random genetic mutations) 2) the insane criminal: suffering from various diseases of the mind. 3) the criminaloid (a early version of the. "psychopath" or criminal opportunist; difficult to detect because they don"t look. 4) criminal of passion (motivated by love, anger etc,) Lombrosos"s thinking changed as he matured ~ he began to emphasize environmental factors relating the development of maladaptive behavioral traits such as climate, rainfall, grain prices, sexual customs, influence of the church and government. Weakness: did not use a rigorous scientific method: Skewed sample of criminals: biological traits that lombroso emphasized might not be purely hereditary".