Introduction
“People make choices, but they cannot choose the choices available to them. Nor can they be sure what chain of events will follow from their choices, including choices made by others.”- Marcus Felson (Pearson Criminal Justice) In life we all have choices, which have both positive and negative consequences depending on the choice we made. It all started in the eighteenth century when people used to think that crime came upon because of spiritual reasons. In that century, a movement called Enlightment was beginning to spread all over Europe. The Enlightment movement was a social movement that based its believes on rational thinking; which would contradict and give a better explanation of the old believes of why crime occurs.
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It also gave some explanation of the way people used to think when it came to crime and spirituality. Classical School developed understanding in criminological thoughts by showing and explaining that everyone has free will and that every actions has a reaction, meaning every choice comes with its consequence. Because of this, the Classical school became known as the first modern approach to explain crime and criminal behavior. (On crimes and punishment and other writings by the Lorenzo da ponte italian …show more content…
They key elements of classical school of criminology explain the main reasons of the classical school of criminology by giving ideas and stating their believes.
Also, the two most important people the Classical School of criminology were Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham. Beccaria believed in deterrence, he believed that by deterring the society, crimes could be prevented. And Bentham believed that pain and pleasure are the key components into understanding criminal behavior.
Even though there are people with different points of views it is understandable that people may doubt the theory because of lack of scientific prove and also because question can come up like the one referred from the Pearson book, that “why, for example, do some people choose to commit crime, while other in similar situations decide against crime commission?”
Everyone might have a different point of view but the created of Classical school of criminology in my opinion was an excellent base of the criminal justice system to be fair and just when sentencing a criminal and preventing
“People make choices, but they cannot choose the choices available to them. Nor can they be sure what chain of events will follow from their choices, including choices made by others.”- Marcus Felson (Pearson Criminal Justice) In life we all have choices, which have both positive and negative consequences depending on the choice we made. It all started in the eighteenth century when people used to think that crime came upon because of spiritual reasons. In that century, a movement called Enlightment was beginning to spread all over Europe. The Enlightment movement was a social movement that based its believes on rational thinking; which would contradict and give a better explanation of the old believes of why crime occurs.
Furthermore …show more content…
It also gave some explanation of the way people used to think when it came to crime and spirituality. Classical School developed understanding in criminological thoughts by showing and explaining that everyone has free will and that every actions has a reaction, meaning every choice comes with its consequence. Because of this, the Classical school became known as the first modern approach to explain crime and criminal behavior. (On crimes and punishment and other writings by the Lorenzo da ponte italian …show more content…
They key elements of classical school of criminology explain the main reasons of the classical school of criminology by giving ideas and stating their believes.
Also, the two most important people the Classical School of criminology were Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham. Beccaria believed in deterrence, he believed that by deterring the society, crimes could be prevented. And Bentham believed that pain and pleasure are the key components into understanding criminal behavior.
Even though there are people with different points of views it is understandable that people may doubt the theory because of lack of scientific prove and also because question can come up like the one referred from the Pearson book, that “why, for example, do some people choose to commit crime, while other in similar situations decide against crime commission?”
Everyone might have a different point of view but the created of Classical school of criminology in my opinion was an excellent base of the criminal justice system to be fair and just when sentencing a criminal and preventing