Week Five - Enlightenment Period

Question 1

What was the Enlightenment Period?

Answer 1

Cultural movement of intellectuals beginning late C17th and C18th Europe

Question 2

What were the key theories of the Enlightenment Period?

Answer 2

Emphasizes reason and individualism

Scientific thought

Opposed superstition and intolerance

Questioned authority of old aristocracies

Major impact on culture, politics and governments

Origins of modern criminological theory

Question 3

When did crime replace sin?

Answer 3

‘Crime’ only replaced ‘sin’ when a growing legal system (designed to protect property and the nation-state) grew out of social, economic and cultural changes of the industrial revolution (Muncie and McLaughlin, 2013: xix).