Classical school (criminology) Classical school (criminology) In criminology, the Classical School usually refers to the 18th-century work during the Enlightenment by the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Their interests lay in the system of criminal justice and penology and indirectly, through the proposition that "man is a calculating animal", in the causes of criminal behavior. The Classical School of thought was premised on the idea that people have free will in making decisions, and that punishment can be a deterrent for crime, so long as the punishment is proportional, fits the crime, and is carried out promptly. The system
What Should Legal Analysis Become? Lorne. "The Politics of Imagination" (review of "What Should Legal Analysis Become?") 47 University of Toronto Law Journal 523 (1997) Unger, Roberto Mangabeira. "What Should Legal Analysis Become?". Verso Books, 1996. Waldron, Jeremy. "Dirty Little Secret" (review of "What Should Legal Analysis Become?"), 98 Columbia Law Review 510 (1998). What Should Legal Analysis Become? What Should Legal Analysis Become? is a book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. First published in 1996, the book germinated from lectures Unger gave at Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and the London School of Economics. In the book, Unger argues that in