SCHOOLS OF CRIMINOLOGY

Question 1

What is the classical school?

Answer 1

focuses on that humans are motivated by our own free will, not a higher power (mid 18th century)

Question 2

what did Beccaria argue about crime?

Answer 2

punishment should fit the crime, law should apply equally regardless of social, economic or religious considerations

Question 3

what did Bentham believe about level of penal severity?

Answer 3

in reducing it, moving away from reliance of capitol punishment

Question 4

when did the positivist school emerge?

Answer 4

19th century

Question 5

what is the positivist school interested in?

Answer 5

causes of crime, it advocates individual treatment of offenders and punishments to suit criminal, rather than crime. social causes or environments may dictate peoples behaviour. this school was created by Lombroso

Question 6

what did durkehim believe about crime?

Answer 6

it is normal, we can identify it and make norms

Question 7

what did Marx believe about crime?

Answer 7

economic base of society effects crime in society