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Discuss the principles of classical criminology, making reference to the works of both
Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham.

- The principles of classical criminology it is a classical perspective that views


human beings as a fundamental rational, it portrays two central determinants of
human behavior: pain and pleasure, and views punishment as necessary to deter
law violators and to serve as an example. In reference to Cesare Beccaria, his
principles are: laws that should be used to maintain the social contract, only
legislators should create laws, judges should impose punishment only when in
obedience to the law, judges should not interpret laws, punishment should be
based on the pleasure and/or pain principle, punishment should be based on the
act, not on the actor, punishment should be determined by the criem, punishment
should be prompt and effective, all people should be treated equally, capital
punishment should be abolished, use of torture to gain confessions should be
abolished, and better to prevent crimes than to punish them. As for Jeremy
Bentham, his principles consist of pain vs. pleasure: concerned with achieving the
greatest happiness of the greatest number, utilitarianism is all human actions that
calculate in accordance with their likelihood of bringing pleasure or pain, and the
proposed felicific calculus, which is when individuals put all factors into an
equation to decide whether a particular crime is worth committing.

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