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Chapter 5 The Classical Thinkers

Chapter 5 The Classical Thinkers. Forerunners of Classical Thought. Mores proscribe serious violations of a group’s values. Folkways time-honoured customs that carry force of tradition. Laws Mala in se , mala prohibita. The Demonic Era. Interpretations of evil range from the cosmic

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Chapter 5 The Classical Thinkers

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  1. Chapter 5 The Classical Thinkers

  2. Forerunners of Classical Thought • Mores • proscribe serious violations of a group’s values • Folkways • time-honoured customs that carry force of • tradition • Laws • Mala in se, mala prohibita

  3. The Demonic Era Interpretations of evil range from the cosmic level (e.g., karma, fate) to personal deviance resulting from demonic possession. Good versus Evil

  4. Sources of Criminal Law Code of Hammurabi Early Roman Law Common Law Magna Carta

  5. The Enlightenment • Thomas Hobbes • social contract • Jean-Jacques • Rousseau • natural law • John Locke • tabula rasa

  6. The Classical School Developed from the period of the Enlightenment. Crime and deviance were products of the exercise of free will.

  7. The Classical School • Cesare Becarria (1738-1794) • punishment should be a deterrent rather • than retribution • punishment should be used to prevent • crime

  8. The Classical School • Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) • behaviour holds value according to the amount • of pleasure or pain that it can be expected to • produce for the individual

  9. Neo-Classical Criminology Rational Choice Situational Crime Control Policy

  10. Punishment and Neo-Classical Thought

  11. Policy Implications of the Classical School • Individual-rights advocates • dangerousness, incapacitation • Law and order advocates • get-tough-on-crime policies

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