TEORII ALE CRIMINOLOGIEI CLASICE ŞI NEOCLASICE
THEORIES OF CLASSICAL AND NEOCLASSICAL CRIMINOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Criminology was called classical by the opponents of this ideological current when the dispute started between the old conception of the legal discipline of punishment and the new current inspired by the research of the new criminal sciences. The new classical criminology emerged in this context in the second half of the 18th century: its leading figures were Cesare Beccaria (Italy), Jeremy Bentham (UK) and Francesco Carrara (Italy), who focused on the operations of the criminal justice system. The foundation of classical thought was the belief that humans are rational beings who weigh the consequences of their actions before they take them. The classicists also strived to remove uncertainty in the work of the criminal justice system to ensure that all citizens were aware of what would happen to them if they committed a crime.

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