In four pages the criminology views of this trio of theorists are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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treatise had been an overnight success, and encapsulated Enlightenment notions suggesting that the best way of dealing with crime was the implementation of a definitive rational punishment (1999). The author
also implied the necessity for some sort of agency that would be charged with the apprehension of offenders (1999). Beccarias text would appear to offer a rational solution to crime
and therefore provide a means of soothing contemporary anxieties (1999). In addition to the idea of having a structured agency to deal with criminality, Beccaria contributed other concepts. He is
also considered to be a scholar of the classical school and further, associated with utilitarianism (Peyrot & Burns, 2002; Yacoubian, 1998). It should be noted that theorists associated with
the classical school assume that people possess free will and each have a conscience (Peyrot & Burns, 2002). Utilitarianism is a general theory associated with the idea that the solution
to societal problems lies in the creation of the greatest quantity of happiness. Interestingly, it had been utilitarian thinkers like Beccaria and Bentham who were most influential in terms of
crime theory (Yacoubian, 1998). Lombroso was another nineteenth century theorist who had a lot to contribute in terms of the criminology field. Cesare Lombroso was an Italian medical doctor,
psychiatrist and criminologist, who created a sensation with his book that was published in 1876 ("Cesare," 2001). In the work, the doctor utilized Darwinian principals of evolution to explain criminal
behavior (2001). What the doctor did was to measure heads of living and executed criminals and compared them to the skulls of primitive humans and apes (2001). He concluded that
criminals were primitive and actually victims of atavism (2001). Lombrosos theory of atavistic criminality drew on Francis Galtons thinking on human heredity (2001). Galton believed that over generations, character