Discuss The Five Principles Of Criminology

Gavin Jarvies

Part I: The Outline
Throughout my criminology study I have been studying many interesting things and topics. Things like how criminals think and why they create the crimes they do, different kinds of crimes, etc, But there was a study lesson I picked up some information from. Some of that information was about crime in the olden days which has taught me about criminology back then and I found it crazy how much the video taught about how much crime was different compared to the crime now. This is what led me to the questions... How has crime changed from the medieval times compared to now? And Has it improved for the better? There are many more questions I have thought of that I will talk about and answer throughout my writing, …show more content…
The school of criminology is made up of Five principles. What are the five principles of criminology? The five principles are Rationality, hedonism, punishment, human rights, and due process. These principles teach us about what people learned about criminal behavior in the enlightenment. The first principle is the principle of Rationality which teaches us that people have the choice to whether commit a crime or to not commit a crime. The person that is going to commit the crime goes through rational thinking and decision. The second principle fo the school of criminology is Hedonism which teaches us that when the criminal thinks about the pleasure and good that can come out of the crime that the criminal created or committed. The third principle is the principle of punishment which teaches us that criminals sometimes can think about the consequences of the crime that may affect the way they commit the crime. The fourth principle is the principle of human rights which means or states a law that says we cannot torture the criminal like the olden days or medieval times because humans have there rights. It is the right to justify for every individual human. Human beings are rational beings and we are all humans. Since we are all individual humans we are to be cared for and and not be tortured so harshly like humans were in the medieval times. The fifth principle is the due process which teaches us that the person being accused of the crime has to go through a fair trial to make sure that the criminal gets punished if he did commit a crime and make sure that a human is not being punished for a crime he has not