Substitutes for Punishment
Definition
Ferri's proposed measures (sostitutivi penali), such as economic and administrative reforms, intended to remove the social conditions that produce crime instead of relying only on penal sanction.
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.
- Criminal Sociology
- Ferri's term for a criminology that weighs physical, anthropological, and social factors together, giving social conditions equal standing with biology.
- 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...