Finally, the Classical School of Criminology stresses that the punishment should fit the crime committed. ... An Italian physician Lombroso (1835-1909) known as the father of criminology studied inmates at the institutes for criminally insane persons at Pavia. ... In the nineteenth century, School of Positive Criminology was the direct result of scientific research introduced in Europe. ... Comte called this final stage as "positive stage" coining the "Positive School of Criminology" after it. Positive School of Criminology views that criminal behaviour is the product of ex...

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The specific case as noted in the text, Crime, Justice and Society: Criminology and the Sociological Imagination took place in 1872 and involved a company named Credit Mobilier, and its parent company, Union Pacific Railroad Company. ...

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Youthful Sex Offenders This paper means to address the subject of minors who commit sexual offenses, the causation and whether or not youths who do commit sexual offenses have diagnosable and treatable psychiatric and/or anti-social disorders. But first let me state, for the issue of criminality, ...

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