Zebulon Brockway helped establish this field in America, and its leading early member was Cesare Beccaria.
Zebulon Brockway helped establish this field in America, and its leading early member was Cesare Beccaria. Another member of this field, Cesare Lombroso, argued that certain people could be identified through atavistic physical features. Robert Merton applied the sociologial theory of anomie to this field, which is also the focus of a book which analyzes "carceral systems" and the Panopticon, Discipline and Punish. For 10 points, name this field of social science which analyzes recidivism, prisons, and punishing those who break the law.
Zebulon Brockway helped establish this field in America, and its leading early member was Cesare Beccaria.
{criminology} [or {penology}]