Characters BIOLOGICAL POSITIVISM SCHOOL Flashcards
His major contribution is the development of the scientific approach to the study of criminal behavior and to reform the criminal law
Cesare Lombroso
He emphasize on the need to study offenders scientifically
Cesare Lombroso
He believes that criminals could not be held morally responsible for their crimes because they did not choose to commit crimes but rather were driven to commit them by conditions of their lives.
Enrico Ferri
According to him, the only way to understand crime was to study it by scientific methods
Raffaele Garofalo
He traced the roots of criminal behavior to their psychological equivalents called “MORAL ANOMALIES”
Raffaele Garofalo
According to him, NATURAL CRIMES offend the basic moral sentiments of Probity and Piety
Raffaele Garofalo
He states that criminals, as a group, are physically the same as non criminals
Charles Goring
According to him, criminals are biologically inferior
Ernest Hooton
According to him, strict adherence to preventive measures based on scientific methods would reduce crime and allow people to live together in society
Enrico Ferri
