Positivist vs. Classical School of Law

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Positivist vs. Classical School of Law
In the positivist v. Classical theory, they happen to be two approaches to crime. For the classical criminology, its philosophy is utility maximization and free-will. Besides, its problem is calculating the criminal. In positivist criminology, its philosophy is the individual subjects to the exterior forces. Its great problem is under-socialization. The solution to the classical criminology problem is deterrence while the solution to positivist criminology is intervention and expert study. In positivism, objective things can be observed and experimented for the quantification of data.
For individual positivism, the key approach on criminals is different from the non-criminals. Punishment is cited to be of less significance as compared to social defense with regards to further offending (Finnis, 4). Positivism relies on studying criminals and not a crime.
Classical criminology bases much emphasis on personal free-will. This is through enduring of influence with consideration of the criminal justice system, most commonly, as a punishment.
Racial profiling is unjustifiable since its wrong despite the underlying principle. The affirmative action is complicated considering the purist view. The affirmative action and racial profiling is a similar thing (Matza, 9). The only identifiable difference is that one is bad the other is good. For instance, when storming a plane to investigate on an individual doubted to plant a bomb somewhere, it lacks sufficient time for generalizing and treating people as individuals.

The events of 9/11 suggest a justifiable action for the forms of ethnic profiling. In a proactive and long article, the damage that is caused by profiling is largely due to the underlying expressive underlying racism. Some forms of damage are quite large despite the magnitude. The background racism enables the additional harms to be hard to justify and bear.
Work Cited
Finnis, John. “Natural law: The classical tradition.” The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law. 2002.
Matza, David. Delinquency and drift. Routledge, 2018.