18.9.07
Theory Review Set 3
We are doing something a little different in class today. Come readdy to dive into the reading as usual. You will be generating your own questions however.
Deviance Review Set 3 The classical perspective
1. Explain the relevance of the two quotes on p.61
2. What do you make of the “way” of controlling deviance in the Netherlands? Pfohl alleges that is is less different than the way the Captain handles the control of deviance in his home state than might appear at first look. How can this be?
3. Explain how the demographic, political, economic, religious and intellectual changes of the period led to the transition from demonic to classical explanations of and attempts to control deviance. Make a chart, it will help.
4. Assumptions of the classical perspective:
a. naturalness of the “social contract”
b. rational rule of the state through law
c. free will
d. calculated rationality
Explain them.
5. Baccaria could be said to be the thinker behind what is commonly referred to today as “the rule of law” when we are talking about the stability of developing nations. Explain.
6. Baccaria’s contributions of the classical perspective:
a. Separation of Law and Guilt
b. Hedonistic Psychology
c. political arithmetic
d. deterrence
e. control of acts not actors
6. What is the guiding basis on which the State should devise the laws in the classical perspective?
7. Why is the french penal code of 1791 important?
8. Explain the neoclassical modifications. Premeditation; mitigating circumstances; insanity
9. Classical theorizing about deviance was focused on making good laws and devising effective enforcements of the laws so as to control deviance not deviants. Yet the classical perspective ultimately led to the state centralization of and reliance on imprisonment as its primary for of control. Controlling the deviants to control the deviance as it were. Once centralized imprisonment became the preferred and primary form of rational punishment, control of deviance by controlling deviants began to evolve into treating deviants. explain.
10. Specific deterrence; general deterrence; certainty; severity; tipping point; overload hypothesis. Explain
11. What are Pfohl’s reservations about deterrence and do you agree with him? explain.
12. Explain how the rationality of the classical perspective is unjust in its application in real life according to Pfohl.
2. What do you make of the “way” of controlling deviance in the Netherlands? Pfohl alleges that is is less different than the way the Captain handles the control of deviance in his home state than might appear at first look. How can this be?
3. Explain how the demographic, political, economic, religious and intellectual changes of the period led to the transition from demonic to classical explanations of and attempts to control deviance. Make a chart, it will help.
4. Assumptions of the classical perspective:
a. naturalness of the “social contract”
b. rational rule of the state through law
c. free will
d. calculated rationality
Explain them.
5. Baccaria could be said to be the thinker behind what is commonly referred to today as “the rule of law” when we are talking about the stability of developing nations. Explain.
6. Baccaria’s contributions of the classical perspective:
a. Separation of Law and Guilt
b. Hedonistic Psychology
c. political arithmetic
d. deterrence
e. control of acts not actors
6. What is the guiding basis on which the State should devise the laws in the classical perspective?
7. Why is the french penal code of 1791 important?
8. Explain the neoclassical modifications. Premeditation; mitigating circumstances; insanity
9. Classical theorizing about deviance was focused on making good laws and devising effective enforcements of the laws so as to control deviance not deviants. Yet the classical perspective ultimately led to the state centralization of and reliance on imprisonment as its primary for of control. Controlling the deviants to control the deviance as it were. Once centralized imprisonment became the preferred and primary form of rational punishment, control of deviance by controlling deviants began to evolve into treating deviants. explain.
10. Specific deterrence; general deterrence; certainty; severity; tipping point; overload hypothesis. Explain
11. What are Pfohl’s reservations about deterrence and do you agree with him? explain.
12. Explain how the rationality of the classical perspective is unjust in its application in real life according to Pfohl.
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