CJS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heredity, Enrico Ferri, Penitentiary Act
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The explanations of crime, whether they are created by the public or by professional criminologists, are influenced by the social context from which they come. Social context will consist of perceptions and interpretations of the past as well as. As an explanation of criminal behavior, spiritualism emphasized the conflict between the present. absolute good and absolute evil set in a metaphysical context. People who committed crimes were thought to be possessed by evil spirits, often referred to as demons. The classical school of criminology posited that criminality may be chosen or rejected based upon each individual"s action of free will. The most significant difference between the classical school and the subsequent. Positivist school is the latter"s search for empirical facts to confirm the idea that crime is determined by multiple facts. The modern search for multi-factual explanations of crime is usually attributed to cesare.
