Reading Assignment #2

Deliverable Length: 3 pages

Due: Sunday, February 6 

Answer any two questions (10 points each):

1.  Fully discuss the classical school of criminology. Include the following points: the major contributors, the assumptions about society, crime, and punishment.

2.  What are the primary modifications of the classical school made by neoclassical criminology?

3.  Summarize the importance of Jeremy Bentham’s economic model for classical criminology. Include a discussion of the concepts utilitarianism and the pleasure/pain principle.