ANTONIO GARCÍA-PABLOS DE MOLINA

Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Madrid

Director of the Madrid Institute of Criminology
Principal Professor of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Sciences
(INPECCP)

Criminology
Foundations and Principles for
Scientific Study of Crime, Prevention of
Crime and the Treatment of the Offender

Peruvian Institute of Criminology and Criminal Sciences

Continuing Education Center

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ANTONIO GARCIA-PABLOS DE MOLINA
Professor of Criminal Law at the Complutense University of Madrid
Director of the Madrid Institute of Criminology
Principal Professor of the Peruvian Institute of Criminology and Criminal Sciences (INPECCP)

CRIMINOLOGY
Foundations and Principles for the Scientific Study of
Crime, the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of
Offender

I or Peruvian Edition

Prologue and Preliminary Study by:

FELIPE VILLAVICENCIO TERREROS
Principal Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and
from the San Martín de Porres Private University (UPSMP))

Collection
Peruvian Institute of Criminology and Criminal Sciences STUDIES IN CRIMINAL SCIENCES directed by
INPECCP Continuing Education Center
Miguel Perez Arroyo

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FIRST PART
Criminology as an empirical and interdisciplinary science.
Concept, method, object, system and functions of Criminology

I. Criminology as an empirical and interdisciplinary science.

Concept, method, object, system and functions of Criminology. 1
1. Provisional definition of Criminology. Notes from it 1
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1. The offender: normality and (pathological) diversity of the offender) 66
a) Various images and stereotypes of the offender..................................................
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a) The crisis of the «causal-explanatory» paradigm 182
b) Criminology as an “information center” (Clearing) 183
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a) According to the encyclopedic conception they belong to the
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PART TWO
History of criminological thought.
The consolidation of Criminology as a science:
The struggle of schools and the various theories of crime.
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I. Introduction: the origin of “scientific” Criminology 221

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d) Criminological positivism in Spain 252
1. Middle Schools and Environmental Theories 253
a) The Lyon School and environmental theories 253
b) Eclectic schools 256
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d') Criminal psychopathology: psychic areas and functions

affected by possible pathologies (intelligence, memory, thought and
language, will, consciousness, attention and temporal-spatial orientation,
perception, affectivity, instincts, etc.)
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d”) Factorial models\ trait theories and

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A) Plurifactorial Theories (Glueck, Healy, Mercil, Elliot and others) 416
B) The Chicago School: Ecological theory and urban criminal sociology
(Park, Burgess, Mckenzie, Shaw, Mckay). Other "spatial" models:
studies of social areas and theory of "defensible Space" (Newman)
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C) Structural-functionalist theories: Durkheim's theory of "anomie"; other
structural-functionalist formulations (Merton, Cloward, Ohlin).
Particular reference to "systemic" theories 428
D) Conflict theories. Its main representatives: (Taft, Sellin, Dahrendorf,
Coser, etc.). Later formulations: non-Marxist inspired (Chambliss,
Seidman, Quinney, Turk, etc.); Marxist-oriented (the so-called "Critical
Criminology") 435
E) Subcultural theories. The classic Cohen-y model of juvenile
delinquency. Cloward and Ohlin's "differential opportunity" theory. The
"social class" factor and subcultural models: Miller 's thesis and that of
"underground values" (Sykes and Matza). Other critical theories 446
F) Theories of social process. Theories of social learning (Social Learning)
and their main formulations (Sutherland, Cloward and Ohlin, Glaser,
etc.); theories of social control (Hirschi, Briar and Piliavin, Reckless,
Reiss, etc.); the «labeling approach» (symbolic interactionism and social
constructivism) 456
G) Criminological theory and praxis in formerly socialist countries.
Postulates of socialist Criminology: ideological, political, criminal and
methodological. Theories of crime 479
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2. Public security, private security and crime prevention 565
3. The increase in security services and its causes 565
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FIFTH PART
Criminological analysis of the various models and
crime reaction systems

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3') Self-government systems, behavioral contract and

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3 ') Towards moderate optimism about the rehabilitative effectiveness of

treatment: The Canadian School of Learning 632 h) Empirical evaluation of the
rehabilitative effectiveness of the various
intervention techniques in young people and adults in the light of the most
recent "meta-analyses": sexual delinquency, delinquency of young people and
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psychopathic adults, and domestic and sexual violence.

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a) The Anglo-Saxon “fun” movement and its reinforcement 651
theoretical (the labeling approach)
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