Criminal Sociology

Description

The positive school of criminal law -- Data of criminal anthropology. Natural history of criminal man -- Fundamental objections to the data of anthropology -- Natural classification of criminals. Data of criminal statistics. Methods of collecting criminal statistics -- Civilization and crime -- Periodic movement of crime -- Law of criminal saturation -- Equivalents for punishment -- Prevention and repression -- Positive theory of penal responsibility. The negation of the free will -- The problem of penal justice with the denial of free will -- Objections to negation of free will -- Present forms of defensive reaction -- Eclectic theories of responsibility -- Two final problems of justice without free will -- The conditions of criminality -- Practical reforms. Three general principles for procedural reform according to the positivist school -- The machinery of penal justice and its actual character -- The jury -- The "bankruptcy of the classical penal systems" and the positivist system of repressive social defense -- Practical reforms -- Conclusion