SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Deterrence Theory, Bad Hindelang, Homicide
15 Apr 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Most often associated with cesare beccaria, because of his work which was based on free-will rationalistic hedonism. Beccaria proposed that people weighed the pros and cons, and if they found the rewards to be higher than the costs, they would offend. Therefore, punishments for the crimes should always be proportional, i. e. always exceed reward. Classical criminology was a protest against those criminal justice policies and against the spiritual explanation of crime on which they were based. Thomas hobbes social contract people naturally pursue their own interests without caring about whether they hurt anyone else war of each against all. Other social contract philosophers include: locke, montesquieu, voltaire & By the middle of 1700s these naturalistic ideas were well known, and widely accepted by intellectuals of the day, but did not represent the thinking of the powerful political groups that ruled various states in europe.
