CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gambling, Atavism, Cesare Lombroso

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C7
• Professor: Teresa Dalton

Document Summary

Lecture 2: schools and ideologies by professor terry dalton (01/07/2016) What is criminal justice: a system for the implementation of punishment. Criminal justice theories and ideologies by francis t. cullen and. Only the legislator (elected officials) decide law and therefore punishment for violations of law. Human beings = rational and free-willed: can be held responsible for actions, governed by principle of utility: seek pleasure/happiness and avoid pain. Punishment based on social harm of act and not intention of offender: like offenses receive like punishment, punishment fit crime and not criminal. Goal of punishment = primarily crime prevention, secondarily retribution for harm caused by offender: to prevent crime, punishments should be just severe enough for pain/ unhappiness created to outweigh pleasure/happiness from crime. Offender decide crime does not pay and thus deterred from future violation of law. Certainty and swiftness of punishment > severity.