Criminal Sociology
Definition
Ferri's term for a criminology that weighs physical, anthropological, and social factors together, giving social conditions equal standing with biology.
Related terms
- Atavism
- Lombroso's concept that born criminals were evolutionary throwbacks to a more primitive human type, identifiable by physical stigmata. The concept is scientifically...
- Born Criminal
- Lombroso's term (reo nato) for an offender whose criminality is innate and identifiable through physical stigmata rather than produced by choice or...
- Criminal Anthropology
- The 19th century study of offenders through physical measurement, comparing skull shape, facial features, and body form across criminal and non-criminal populations.
- Natural Crime
- Garofalo's category of conduct that offends the universal moral sentiments of pity and probity, regardless of whether a given penal code happens...
- Cesare Lombroso
- Italian army physician and psychiatrist, usually credited as the founder of the positivist school, author of L'Uomo Delinquente.
- Enrico Ferri
- Lawyer and student of Lombroso who built a criminal sociology combining anthropological, physical, and social causes of crime.
- Raffaele Garofalo
- Magistrate credited with coining the word criminology, author of the natural crime concept built on pity and probity.
- Substitutes for Punishment
- Ferri's proposed measures (sostitutivi penali), such as economic and administrative reforms, intended to remove the social conditions that produce crime instead of...
Explained in these topics
- Lombroso, Ferri, Garofalo: The Positivist SchoolFerri's term for his three-factor model of crime causation: anthropological, physical, and social factors acting together.
- The Positivist School of Criminology: Lombroso, Ferri, and Garofalo