The Positive School of Criminology - Couverture souple

Ferri, Enrico

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438536631 ISBN 13 : 9781438536637

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2010

Synopsis

Enrico Ferri (1856 -1929) was an Italian criminologist and socialist. Ferri investigated social and economic factors that motivated criminals. He argued for crime prevention over punishment. Ferri notes that a decrease in the prison population is not indicative of a decrease in the crime rate. Instead it shows shorter sentences and the substitution of fines for jail time. There is a change in judicial procedure, but not necessarily a decrease of crime. The best method of dealing with crime is to find the original cause and rectify that problem instead of waiting until a person has committed a crime. The underlying social conditions that lead a particular population to increased criminal activity must be studied. The Positive School of Criminology consists of Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 190.1.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In criminology Positive School refers to the first scientific school consisting of the Italian criminologists Cesare Lombroso, Raffaelo Garofalo and Enrico Ferri. Positive School supports the assumptions of positivism and argue that criminality is determined, the effect in a cause-effect sequence, and that the mandate of the study of crime and criminology should be to search for these causes. It was believed that with the exception of those deemed to be ‘born criminals’, the discovery of the causes of crime would allow for effective treatment. The old objects of punishment have been severely altered. Criminals are to be treated, not punished. Reformation is to be applied with discrimination to the various classes of criminals. Positive School therefore adopts a medical model (crime as sickness) and advocates rehabilitative ideal, that is, rehabilitation of offenders, indeterminate sentences, and the dominance of professionals in correctional decision-making. The Positive School would not hold the individual responsibility for crime, since they are determined by forces beyond his control. Prevention of crime by discovering as early as possible those with characteristics likely to lead to delinquency, altering the external conditions which make for crime, and throwing around each person the influences which make for social behavior, is receiving primary emphasis. The shift from individual to social responsibility for crime has also resulted in the rise of Juvenile Courts, indeterminate sentences and wider attempts at social control of crime. The Positive School of Criminology by Enrico Ferri - The positive school of criminology, was born in our own Italy through the singular attraction of the Italian mind toward the study of criminology; and its birth is also due to the peculiar condition our country with its great and strange contrast between the theoretical doctrines and the painful fact of an ever increasing criminality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438536631
• ISBN 13: 9781438536637
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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