Cesare Beccaria, in the 1700s, was one of the first scholars to develop a systematic understanding of why people commit crime. Beccaria helped to form the core of what today is referred to as ______________ criminology.

A. determinism
B. classical
C. positivism
D. Marxism


Answer: B

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