El determinismo biológico en México

Del Darwinismo Social a La Sociología Criminal

Bibliographic Data

ID3674255
AuthorsBeatriz Urías Horcasitas (0000-0003-3116-7439, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Year1996
Volume58
Issue4
Pages99
Publication date1996-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Mexicana de Sociología (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0188-2503 • E-ISSN: 2594-0651
PublisherUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (PUBLISHER • MX)
DOI10.2307/3541043
OpenAlexW1488961523
LanguageES
Citations received1

This essay questions the rationality underlying the broad dissemination given to a trend in criminal sociology that took up the propositions of the Italian positivist school, led by Ferri and Garofalo, during the first half of the 20th century. The origins of this trend can be traced to a number of late 19th century propositions of Social Darwinism. The author holds that both Social Darwinism and criminal sociology shared a single approach based on biological determinism. The essay's conclusion establishes a link between the ignorance or neglect of criminal sociology studies undertaken during the first half of this century and the negligible development of a trend in legal sociology which nowadays could provide a humanistic and critical view of problems related to the justice system

Criminal justice · Criminology · Darwinism · Determinism · Epistemology · Humanism · Humanities · Ignorance · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Rationality · Social Darwinism · Social science · Social thought · Sociology · Agricultural and Food Production Studies · Law · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

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