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Criminology

 

             What is the difference in criminology and criminal justice? Criminology is the study of criminal behavior. Criminal justice involves agencies that deal with crime.
             What is the Classical School of Criminology? In the Classical School of Criminology, people are believed to acting on their own self interest in a criminal or non-criminal matter. Becarria founded this in the 18th century. He believed that people want to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. He set out that criminals must get pleasure out of committing a crime therefore; they must receive pain as punishment. .
             What is the Positive School of Criminology? This is the study of examining human behavior that was biologically oriented. It is studied first at the natural origin of the crime followed by the social and legal consequences. .
             What is the basis of the biological school of thought on criminalism? This is the study of physical characteristics of a human being. Trying to figure out if it is the basis of an organic society. Lombroso did his research with cadavers. He measured heads of executed and living criminals against apes and prehistoric humans and concluded that criminals were atavistic (people who failed to evolve to a fully human civilized state). .
             Where does Karl Marx fit into the theories on crime? He wrote on conflict criminology. He was a socialist thinker. His social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death. .
             Bourgeoisie is the people who own the social means of production. They were land owners with money and power. Proletariats are the people who do the actual labor.
            


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